How to display blank date on a VB form.

[cassidybklyn]

Good morning all,
is there a format or way of displaying a blank on a form control (textbox)?

For example, If a date field is blank, I want to display "_/_/2007".

Thanks.
Cassidy

 

[SkipVought]

Hi,

How about 3 textboxes?

Skip,

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[cassidybklyn]

Hi Skip,
I don't understand what you mean by 3 textboxes. Could you please clarify?
Basicly I want the form to default to "_/_/2007" until the user enters a desired date.
Thanks.
Cassidy

 

[SkipVought]

A box each for MONTH, DAY and YEAR

Skip,

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[cassidybklyn]

Thanks Skip I see what you mean, but some "Dope" want to be able to see "_/_/2007" in the textbox whenever the date field is blank, so I'm gonna embed "_/_/2007" as a default string to show in the textbox.
Thanks man.
Cassidy.

 

[SkipVought]

So what good is that gonna do. The text in the box will either INSERT, pushing everything to the right or OVERWRITE, meaning that you still have to get past each SLASH.

Isn't THAT gonna be fun to use!!!

Of course, you COULD write some fancy code to sense where in the box you are: check out the CurX Property.

Skip,

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