[AccessD] Unbound text box format

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Tue Apr 11 19:19:22 CDT 2023


ROTFLMAO ! 

On 11 Apr 2023 at 19:41, John Colby wrote:

> 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 6:37PM 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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