This works for me

* Put this code in the init event of your textbox

SET DATE TO German
SET CENTURY on

dDate=DATETIME()
This.Value=TTOD(dDate)
This.DateFormat= 4 

>Bill,
>
>I may be doing something wrong here, but setting the textbox format to D does not seem to do much of anything.
>
>I have to set date = german, but that should not influence the format of the textbox, only the format of the date itself.
>
>>>I've been mucking about with input mask and format, all for nothing.
>>>
>>>And no, I can't just TTOD(somefield), so if there is a way to format the textbox to display only the date portion of a datetime field, would you please let me know?
>>>
>>>TIA
>>
>>Peter,
>>
>>I believe that you can set date to American, and set the format of the textbox to "D". That should give you the results you desire.