>>>If I'm not mistaken, I believe that a VFP textbox bound to a date field had some built in smarts that would let end users edit the date value by using the up/down arrow keys (and perhaps pageup/pagedn too). The month/day/year portions of the date would be automatically highlighted/selected and simply by pressing the up/down arrow keys, the highlighted value would increase/decrease by 1.
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>>>Am I just dreaming that this was the way it worked out of the box? If not, can anyone give me some pointers as to how I go about getting it done? I've tried fooling with the input mask and format properties of the textbox but no joy.
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>>>TIA
>>>Mike
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>>The only native functionality with dates in textboxes is if the date is highlighted, you can use + or - to in increment or decrement the date by 1.
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>Hey Frank,
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>Your reply does sound familiar. Too bad it only adjusts by one day though.
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>BTW, are you really a Trini? If so, I envy you at this time of the year (or is it your rainy season?)
Yep, born and bred in Trinidad. Trini father and Irish mother. We are at the end of the rainy season and going into the dry now. You weren't always based in Canada were you?