Slider and date

Question

I have a slider like so:
<mx:HSlider id="myslider" width="245"
allowThumbOverlap="true" thumbCount="1" snapInterval="1"
tickInterval="1"
values="[11]" labels="['Jan', 'Dec']" minimum="1"
maximum="12" change="sliderChangeTwo(event)"
dataTipFormatFunction="getSliderLabel" themeColor="#73B9B9"/>
every month I go in and change the values to the current
month like November is 11. How can I have it shoe this month
automatically. I have been looking at the date stuff but there is
an error because dates are strings and the slider acceps numbers.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
George

Answer 1

..and here's another way to do it...
View source at:
http://www.anaheimwib.com/_comps/slider/
Main difference is I'm using arithmetic on the current date
to get you a date one month out, and using the formatted result as
a bindable in the slider labels property. Since the "futureDate"
var contains today's date + one month, you could also use this var
anywhere else in your code where you need the entire future date.
This is useful at the end of the current year, where you might want
to add two months to today's date, and get a date in 2009, for
instance.
I included the use of the Date formatter class to get you
started on returning just a portion of a date, formatted as you
wish (M="1", MM="01", MMM= "Jan", MMMM= "January"). Simply change
the formatter's format string and the slider's labels will also be
updated.
On more thing...if you are planning on using the slider's
retun value to get a month's number, remember that in actionscript
the month numbering starts at 0 (you are specifying 1-12; AS uses
0-11).
Complete code: