This approch has solved half the problem.

The textbox is still edited in the dd-mm-yyyy but display dd-mmm-yyyy.

Thanks.


This is the max that VFP can do for you.

If you want a dd-mmm-yyyy edit mode you must write a myDateTextBox with
a string Value and a full control on KeyPress event.

This is not hard for a standalone control, a raw start trace code:

* GotFocus
this.Comment = m.this.Controlsource 
this.Controlsource = ''
this.Value = m.this.Text
this.Tag   = m.this.Value

* interactive change code
IF VARTYPE(CTOD(STUFF(m.this.Value,4,3,STR(ATC(SUBSTR(m.this.Value,4,3),"  JENFEBMARAPRMAY...")/3,2))))=="D"
 this.Tag   = m.this.Value
ELSE
 this.Value = m.This.Tag
ENDIF

* Valid
vValue = CTOD(STUFF(m.this.Value,4,3,STR(ATC(SUBSTR(m.this.Value,4,3),"  JENFEBMARAPRMAY...")/3,2)))
this.Controlsource = m.this.Comment
this.Value = m.vValue

But write a gridable control binded to a true field date is possible, but it is very hard.

Fabio