Steven (via Evan)
You can also put this information in the 'value' property during design time. Look on the Data tab of the Properties sheet for the textbox.


>One easy way to just to set the controlsource of the text box to a date (like today) or a blank date. It will then take care of the validation for you.
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>In the init of the textbox put.
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>this.value = date()
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>or
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>this.value = {//}