accepting valid dates

[rajivghare]

Dear friends,

i am new to vfp.

How to accept only a valid date, in a date text box

and how to display it on the form so that the user knows that he has to feed date.

In fp 2.x i use to write

for e.g

@1,1 say "Date"get mdate pict "99-99-9999" defa ctod(" - - &quot
read

kindly help.


rajiv.

 

[Mike Gagnon]

rajivghare

Try setting the format of the textbox to DE. Mike Gagnon

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[rajivghare]

Dear friend mgagnon

Thanks for reply

Please tell me some more on it.

thanks
rajiv

 

[craigsboyd]

set value of textbox to {} to start with

then in gotfocus event of textbox put this line of code...

ON READERROR Messagebox("The date should be entered in mm-dd-yyyy format.",16,"Invalid Date&quot

...then in the lostfocus of the textbox put...

ON READERROR

...this is what i do for textbox date validation anyways Slighthaze = NULL