[AccessD] Short Date Input Mask question

I bet the data entry people love you!

It may "work for you", but I'll bet that there are some users out there that
feel otherwise.  One of my biggest UI pet peeves is fields that disallow
keyboard entry.  One record or 1000 records, it's still annoying to move
your hand off of the home row of your keyboard and click around to select a
date.


-----Original Message-----
From: Heenan, Lambert [mailto:Lambert.Heenan at aig.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 8:22 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Short Date Input Mask question


My solution to date entry is simple - I never let user's type in a date.
They always pick the date from a simple calendar form (though I don't  use
the MS Calendar control). Click on a date field and up pops the date picker.
While this would not be suitable, perhaps, in applications where massive
numbers of dates need to be entered, I find it works just fine for me.

Lambert

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Arthur Fuller [SMTP:artful at rogers.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 16, 2004 5:47 PM
> To:	'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject:	[AccessD] Short Date Input Mask question
> 
> The standard short date input mask (99/99/0000;0;_) has a shortcoming
> that I hate: you have to type 04/04/04 to get April 4th 2004. The year
> handling is nice but the month and day suck. The mask won't let you type
> 4/4/04. Is there an alternative mask that will respond intelligently to
> such input? Or should I instead just remove all the input masks from all
> the date fields?
> 
> TIA,
> Arthur
> 
> -- 

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