Select start of DateTimePicker

[Pietjeparasietje]

I've got a really stupid problem.
There's probably a real simpel way to fix it but I can't find it, so'll just post it.
Ive got 3 dateTimePickers everytime I select one I want to start at the beginning of this Time.
Right now if you have a time like this : " 08:45 AM " and I change the "45", then once I select the object again the "45" is selected. I want to select the "08" or just the begin every time a object is entered.
Hope someone knows how to do this,

Thnx Peter

 

[sggaunt]

I just did an experiment with this (Delphi 7) and the time edit always justifys to the right hand digits.

format was hh':'mm
Change the hours, re-focus and mins are selected.

You will notice that the windows digital clock keeps the last changed focus, it dosen't left justify so to speak.


Steve: Delphi a feersum engin indeed.

 

[Pietjeparasietje]

So what you're saying is that it is not possible to right justify so to speak?

Peter

 

[Nordlund]

sggaunt, where in the Delphi sourcecode does the Enter event select minutes. I can't find it myself.

You might solve your problem by creating a component derived from TDateTimePicker, and override the OnEnter event.

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[Pietjeparasietje]

Indeed, If you could tell me how to select the hours or minutes of that DateTimePicker than it would be no problem..

Peter

 

[sggaunt]

That's the behavior I saw in the simple test I did, most things are possible.
I don't think there is a simple answer, as Nordlund says you can change the behaviour of most controls by overriding the default behaviours.

Nordlund: That's just what I saw when clicking the TDatetimepicker, so its not necessarily caused by default onenter ???? Do you see something else?


Steve: Delphi a feersum engin indeed.

 

[Nordlund]

No. I didn't saw any code at all regarding "OnFocus"

I was able to override OnEnter with the

procedure WMSetFocus(var Message: TWMSetFocus); message WM_SETFOCUS;

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[Nordlund]

...But if I removed the Inherited call, a also removed the focused text... So far so good...

I then tried to make a sendmessage routine to select the hour part of the text, but nothing happened...



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[Pietjeparasietje]

Thanks for the reaction, guess it's just not as easy as I thought.

Peter