[AccessD] Building a calendar control class

I use a class to handle this.  There is a calendar control that comes 
with Access, or at least can be found.  It is then placed on a form and 
under normal (non-class) conditions the control's events are hooked 
right in the form.  I create a class to handle this but also to handle 
the interface between the calendar and the object needing the calendar.  
My objective was to pass in a reference to the control which you want 
the data placed into, i.e. the text box on the form.  The class then 
stores a pointer to this control, and when the user clicks on a date the 
selected date is placed into the object passed in.  I thought I had a 
demo on my site (back when my site was functional).  I will look and see 
if I still have the demo.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com



Arthur Fuller wrote:
> JWC et. al.
>
> It would seem that a good candidate for the collection of control classes
> would be a date control that automatically includes a pop-up calendar with a
> little icon that appears in the OnEnter event, so that the user may either
> type in the date value or click on the icon to open the calendar control.
>
> Coding that functionality the old way is not that difficult, but it seems a
> better idea to do it just once and "inherit" the functionality in every date
> control throughout the application.
>
> Arthur
>