>I want the user to be able to double click in a date field, then bring up a calandar and have them select the date. I can get it all done, expect I don't know how to bring back the date. All I really want to do is place the selected date into a variable ll_date.
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>I looked in the MSDN help and they wrote of a value() method, but I can't seem to find that. I must be missing the painfully obvious solution.
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>Any help????
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>Thanks
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>Alan

Are you using the MonthView calendar control that comes with VFP? If so, you get the values of the Month, Day and Year properties of the control to create the return date.