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Re: date help

• Posted by George Walters <gwalters at sc.rr.com> Aug 23, 2001
• 401 views

thanks Jonas, i'll look at it.

...george

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonas Temple" <jktemple at yhti.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: date help


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> George Walters wrote:
> > Has anyone written a rtn to handle entry of a date in an editText field?
> > I'm
> > looking for a rtn to add the '/'s during entry and also be able to
> > handle
> > edits properly of the field...
> George,
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> You will need to get a hold of datetime.e written by Carl White from the
> archive.  It's an excellent library for date/time
> maniuplation/calculation.    "Two Thumbs Up!"  There's a routine in his
> library called "ValidDate".  Also if you download my Timesheet program
> from the "Recent Contributions" page there are two routines to handle
> formatting a date for display in an edit window and converting that
> character value to numeric for validation (CvtDate and ExtractDate).
> The timehseet program uses dates pretty extensively.  Also, I would
> suggest if you are requiring the user to input a date try using the
> MonthCalendar control in Win32lib.  Makes date entry much easier.
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> Hope this helps.
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> Jonas
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