How can clear the value in a textbox where i input date

[titoneon]

Hi,
I have a textbox where i input a date and i have this named as txtdate, so the txtdate Dateformat property = 1
So i would like to use the DblClick property to clear the value i typed in the Txtdate, so i wrote inside the property the following

This.Value = ''
this.txtdate.DateFormat = 1  && i put this line here to get the " / /    " on the txtdate back,  after it got cleared but this does not work for me
** what should i do to make the txtdate to get the format as before ?

after i double click on the txtdate, the previous date, got cleared from the txtbox but i got this error "unknown member value"
can you guide me here to get this right ?
Thanks

 

[Mike Lewis]

I think your problem is that your code is setting the texbox to a character value, when it is presumably bound to a date field. The culprit is this line:
[tt]
This.Value = ''[/tt]

If you want to initialise it to an empty date, you need something like this:

[tt]This.Value = {}[/tt]

Give it a try and report back.

Mike



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[titoneon]

Yes Mike , that is working as i was expecting, now let me ask you.
if want to put in the doubleclick event soemthing like this

this.txtdate.dateformat = 1
should that do the same thing as This.Value = {} ?
Thanks

 

[Olaf Doschke]

The dateformat property will set the display of dates. But the .value still and even more so has to be a date, not an empty string. '' is empty string literal, {} is an empty date literal.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[torturedmind]

Hi,

Also, make the

this.txtdate.dateformat = 1

to

this.dateformat = 1

because "this" already refers to the object "txtdate".

kilroy
philippines

"Once a king, always a king. But being a knight is more than enough."

 

[Mike Lewis]

As Kilroy says, the Dateformat property belongs to the textbox. If your code is located in the textbox's DblClick, then "this" refers to the textbox, so you don't need "txtdate". In other words, do this:

[tt]this.dateformat = 1[/tt]

But I'm not clear why you need to do this - for two reasons. First, you can simply use SET DATE at the start of your program to establish the desired date format. You would only normally use Dateformat if a specific textbox has a different date format, which would be very unusual.

But even if you do need to set Dateformat, why not do it once only, at design time or in the control's Init? You don't have to constantly do it each time the user wants to clear the textbox.

Mike



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