Is there any way to set a date picker to display a specific time on load? I have four date picker instances initiated from four text fields for Start Time, Finish Time, Start Date and Finish Date using the squimer/datePickerDialog subclass from GitHub that pops up in a UIAlertView.
In my app a default start time would be 7:00 AM and a default finish time would be 5:00 PM and let the user adjust around those times.
All I can see is that you can set the datePicker.defaultDate to currentDate, minimumDate or maximumDate and only once. Is it possible set the defaultDate to hardcoded strings of sTime = "07:00" and fTime = "17:00" in my calls from the ViewController?
Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: This is how I am calling the subclass from my viewController
@IBAction func setFT(sender: UITextField) {
resignKeyboardCompletely(sender)
DatePickerDialog().show("Pick a Finish Time", doneButtonTitle: "Done", cancelButtonTitle: "Cancel", datePickerMode: .Time) {
(timeFinish) -> Void in
self.dateFormatter.dateFormat = "HH:mm"
let finTime = self.dateFormatter.stringFromDate(timeFinish)
self.finishTime.text = finTime
}
defaults.setObject(finishTime.text, forKey: "finishTime")
print(finishTime.text)
}
Note that throughout this I am also trying to maintain persistence through NSUser Defaults.
Are you looking for setting the time through a string. If that''s the case you can use a date formatter like this.
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "HH:mm"
let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString("17:00")
datePicker.date = date
Adding an init to the Picker class
init(time:String) {
super.init(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.size.width, UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.size.height))
setupView()
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "HH:mm"
if let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString("17:00") {
datePicker.date = date
}
}