>Bob, thanks for your comments. I used to do something close to your code, but recently I discovered the YL and YS date formats and my users liked the way it looked on textboxes and grids, the problem became when some of thoese fields where read only. So far I found a solution I placed in the When Method of my base class for inputing dates which is like this:
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>*--When Mehtod.
>return !(this.ReadOnly and this.format$'YL-YS')
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Jorge
Very clever solution. Thank YOU for the idea.
Bob