QDate Help pls

[dimitri]

I dont want user to select any format. User should be able to enter as normal text (as he usually enteres the date. In different country people enter date in different format) and still be able to see finally the date in dd MMMM yyyy format if he had entered the year otherwise in dd MMMM format.

How can I achieve this?

I think you can't achieve this in the general case. For example, in most of Europe 9/11/2006 means November 9 while in America it would be interpreted as September 11. How do you intend to handle this? You have to force the user into some format or use locale information, maybe together with QComboBoxes as suggested by Kapil.

[Kapil]

hi...

if you really want to use a QLineEdit sort of thing then i suppose you would have to write check conditions for most of the possible cases... you can also start a simultaneous thread or a check activated whenever the user enters anything in the line edit that he/she is doing it in proper format...
You can use is line Edit isModified() function which on any input given to the line edit enable you to throw some event and this event which would be thrown would be a check specifier or say date processor which would check whether the user is giving in the date in proper format or not...
this way you can force the user to give the input in a set format..
if you want to give the user the privildge to give in any format then it would be very tough for you as you would have to write many conditions and still left with many exceptions which cannot be handled..
so my suggestion would be either a combobox kinda thing or modified text check kind of thing...

Kapil