>>>does anybody know how to set the date on a DTPicker. hmmm...when I try to set the .value property I get on Error "Property in read only" !
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>>>in the past I've noticed that there where 2 different base classes for the DTPicker in an applicaiton that I had - both native to VFP ( i think one was from an older version ). the one that i can get through the ActiveX menu is the poor one, and I can't seem to find the old one where this seems to work!
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>>>thanks
>>>- jer
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>>Try dtpicker.object.value.
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>need to set it, not get it

You didn't say if you tried this:

dtpicker.object.value = Datetime()

MS changed some things between versions on some ActiveX controls, so that what objects used to have a value property you could set directly, now have to go through the object property.