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sam greene
SimpleDateFormat Problem
Dec 1st, 2009, 2:37pm  
Hi,

First day with processing...

Running this:

Code:
String mindate = "01/01/1900";
String maxdate = "01/01/2000";
String plotdate = "01/01/1975";

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");

Date DTmindate = df.parse("20/12/2005");  

And getting this:

Unhandled exception type ParseException.

If I put the code in a try/catch it runs fine, but I cannot put a setup()/draw() in after that.  I can put it in the draw(), but don't want to do that.

What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks!
Sam
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blindfish
Re: SimpleDateFormat Problem
Reply #1 - Dec 1st, 2009, 3:27pm  
This seems to work:

Code:
String mindate = "01/01/1900";
String maxdate = "01/01/2000";
String plotdate = "01/01/1975";

DateFormat df;
Date DTmindate;

void setup() {
  size(100,100);
 df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
 try {
   DTmindate = df.parse("20/12/2005"); 
 }
 catch(ParseException e) {
   println(e);
 }
 
 println(DTmindate);
}

void draw() {
  
}


Note that setup() needs to run first in order for certain things to happen behind the scenes in Processing...  I always forget the intricacies but hopefully PhilHo will be along soon and clarify Wink
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