Calendar class - Outlook style ??

[jabhawk]

Does anyone have a way to use the Outlook style of popping up a calander object for entering dates? The field is a fill-in until the user enters the field and selectes the dropdown button.

The ActiveX calendar class is too large to be place on my forms and my users like the Outlook style.

I have looked at the classes available with Fox but do not have the experiance with the CLass libraires to look for the object elsewhere. I have seen is on other VFP applications but do not know how it was done.

Any help is appreciated.
Jon B
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[Mike Gagnon]

jabhawk

How about Outlook calendar itself, since your users like it so much.

oOutlook=CREATEOBJECT("outlook.application")
oNameSpace=oOutlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")
oDefaultFolder=oNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(9)
oDefaultFolder.Display

Mike Gagnon

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[jabhawk]

Nice but I just need to show a simple date selection object to return a valid date. The object I had seen before was a popup tool.

If there is a 3rd party tool for reasonale cost I would be interested in seeing it.

Jon B Jonthan A Black

 

[Mike Gagnon]

jabhawk

Have you look at the Datetime picker Activex? Its the same as the one being used in Outlook. Mike Gagnon

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[jabhawk]

The closest that I found is the Calendar Control 8.0 (mscal.ocx).
My experiance with using these tools is limited. Would you have any sample code that would pop-up the object when the date field has focus or the user presses a button?

From looking at the object properties once there is an instance I should be able to control it. My biggest problem is how to attach it to the project and visualize it to the form.

Any help is mucho appriciated.
Jon B Jonthan A Black

 

[Mike Gagnon]

jabhawk

Try this (I believe this is control you want to use)

PUBLIC oform1

oform1=NEWOBJECT("form1")
oForm1.addobject("dtPicker","dtPicker")
oform1.Show
RETURN
DEFINE CLASS form1 AS form
	DoCreate = .T.
	Caption = "Form1"
	Name = "Form1"
ENDDEFINE
DEFINE CLASS dtPicker as OleControl
  oleclass = "MSComCTL2.DTPICKER.2"
  VISIBLE = .T.
  height = 23
  width = 100
  left = 20
  top = 20
ENDDEFINE

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[craigsboyd]

go to the following:

http://foxpro.tthayer.com/LISTTHEM.ASP?CAT=Dates

and then search for vfpdatepicker...pure vfp and doesn't have the limitations of the microsoft datepicker control.

I've been using these vfpdatepicker and vfpdatetimepicker controls for some time now and they work great. Slighthaze = NULL

 

[jabhawk]

SlightHaze,
I looked at the site and I went with the cooldates class as it provided the simplest implementation. The vfpdatepicker class was too complex for me to install and support within out shop.

Thanks for the great link.
Jon B

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