>>>>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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>>>If I'm not mistaken, the built-in textbox control doesn't have that functionality with date values. You could however use the DTPicker ActiveX control.
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>>Too bad. Looks like its time to start coding that functionality into a custom textbox class :( I try to avoid ActiveX controls where possible.
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>Paul Mrozowski (RCS Solutions) has posted a nice non-ActiveX calendar control that you can use as a datepicker.

Thanks for the heads up to Paul's control. I've got something similar already working that mimics the Windows calendar (click the clock/date shown in the taskbar). I was really hoping to improve the keyboard entry of a date value shown in a textbox.