Defaulting to Taday's Date in a Mask Edit Box

[heprox]

I have a form in a simple application that uses a mask edit box to allow the user to enter a date. Whenever the user first loads the form I want the mask edit box to default to the current date so something like:

Private Sub Form_Load()
mskEffectiveDate.Text = "sysdate"
Call PopulateStore
End Sub

What is the correct syntax for this?

 

[DrJavaJoe]

try

mskEffectiveDate.Text = date



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[ProgramError]

hi

put in value property of the textbox -> date()

Program Error
Programmers do it one finger at a time!

 

[heprox]

Just putting in:

mskEffectiveDate.Text = date

gives an "Invalid Property Value" debug error.

Mask Edit Box does not have a "Property" field like a text box.

It has to be somewhere in the properties of a mask edit box?

 

[DrJavaJoe]

Tr this instead:

If your mask looks like this ##/##/####

then do this

MaskEdBox1.Text = Format(Date, "dd/mm/yyyy")





Two strings walk into a bar. The first string says to the bartender: 'Bartender, I'll have a beer. u.5n$x5t?*&4ru!2[sACC~ErJ'. The second string says: 'Pardon my friend, he isn't NULL terminated'.

 

[heprox]

Thanks, worked like a charm...

 

[DrJavaJoe]

Excellent.



Two strings walk into a bar. The first string says to the bartender: 'Bartender, I'll have a beer. u.5n$x5t?*&4ru!2[sACC~ErJ'. The second string says: 'Pardon my friend, he isn't NULL terminated'.