[AccessD] Short Date Input Mask question

Tina Norris Fields tinanfields at torchlake.com
Sat Mar 20 13:36:49 CST 2004


Whatever you do, John, don't give up.  Don't ever give up.  Not everyone 
will benefit from your excellent work - but that is okay.  Many will. 
 And often our job is to plant the seeds and tend the garden, even if we 
don't get  to see the harvest.  Don't  EVER give up.  Thanks for your 
efforts.
Tina

John W. Colby wrote:

>Stuart, that is a silly thing to say, and exactly the reason that I can't
>help but wonder whether anyone at all reads the posts I spend hours writing
>and writing example code for.
>
>Of course "Access does that just fine by itself if you set the format
>property to "d mmm yyyyy".
>
>And now, WE (you and I)  have an application where our respective clients
>say "I hate that format".  I don't know what You do but I go into my sysvar
>table and change a SysVar.  The next time the app opens all date fields are
>formatted however the client wants.
>
>What exactly DO you do?
>
>To a man with a search and replace program....
>
>Shall I just abandon my attempts to educate this list about what frameworks
>can do?  Seems a shame, but it sure appears I've wasted about 30 hours so
>far.
>
>John W. Colby
>www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Stuart
>McLachlan
>Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 5:10 PM
>To: Access Developers discussion and problemsolving
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] Short Date Input Mask question
>
>
>On 16 Mar 2004 at 15:40, John W. Colby wrote:
>
>  
>
>>A great case for a framework.  Define the various formats you use in your
>>text boxes and then tell the framework to figure out that it's a date and
>>apply a format.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>To a man with a hammer.......
>:-)
>
>Access does that just fine by itself if you set the format property
>to "d mmm yyyyy"  or whatever you want in the particular situation.
>
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