[AccessD] Unbound text box format

[John Colby]

I think my framework might be doing this.  I have a control scanner which
grabs a pointer (or a reference? ;) to every control and sets up default
behaviors...

I'm going to have to investigate this.

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 6:37 PM Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
wrote:

> Sounds like you have saved a default for text boxes with that Input mask
> and/or Format.
> Clear the properties from a newly dragged textbox.
> Then with that textbox selected, got to Form Design, click on the bottom
> button beside the
> control selector and select "Set Control Defaults".
>
>
>
> On 11 Apr 2023 at 17:41, John Colby wrote:
>
> > When I drag a text box out onto my form it causes a date format to
> > interfere with entering data into the box.  It looks like __/__/____
> >
> > When I place the cursor into the text box it displays the date format
> > thing looking like __/__/____ and the only thing I can enter are
> > numbers into exactly those locations in that format thing.
> >
> > If I switch to RTF it does not do that. If I switch back to text it
> > does that.   If I bind the control to a text field it does not do
> > that. if I unbind the text box it does that.
> >
> > WTF over?
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