not able to enter date of birth a.k.a wxDatePickerCtrl crashes with some LC_TIME settings

[shilbert]

when trying to enter date of birth in new person dialog for some locales (e.g. en_IN - India) it will not properly work and display wrong and misrepresented date.

Issue has been tracked as beeing related to
wxDatePickerCtrl bug as described in wxwidgets trac

http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/4743

This can be reproduced as described here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnumed-devel/2011-03/msg00011.html

[shilbert (sebastian-hilbert)]

Current status as of 17 March 2011 is that the wx devs are looking into this.

In the meantime we are working around it with our own implementation of the wx datepicker dialog.

This will be fixed in GNUmed 0.9 and beyond.

[shilbert (sebastian-hilbert)]

This is easily reproducable by setting LC_ALL before running e.g. GNUmed.

in a shell:

export LC_ALL=en_IN
gnumed

It will either segfault when opening a widget containing DatePickerCtrl (e.g. register new person) or show a misrepresentation of the date.

[ncq (karsten-hilbert)]

fixed by not using wxPython DatePickerCtrl anymore (which has lots of known problems)