Hi Marcia,

Thanks for your reply.

I found a nice little date picker on the Virtual FoxPro User Group file archive based on a VFP form, very lite and very handy. A few minor changes and it runs magnificently, cutting network load times on my form by 26% over the DatePickerx class I was using previously.

Doug Johnston


>Hello.
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>Is there any way to get the MS DatePicker to accept a blank date?
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>Not easily. Check out the Knowledge base:
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>PSS ID Number: Q253588
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>Article Last Modified on 08-27-2002
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>The information in this article applies to:
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>Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 6.0
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>Symptoms
>When a Date and Time Picker ActiveX control is added to a form, its ControlSource set to a date field, and the record pointer moved to a record that contains a blank value in the date field, the following error message appears:
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>OLE IDispatch exception code 0 from DTPicker: A date was specified that does not fall within the MinDate and MaxDate Properties...
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>You may want to try using the calendar control instead. That one supports empty dates.