On Friday 18 January 2008 04:32:25 pm Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2008, at 4:37 PM, johnf wrote:
> > Update() will populate the dDateTextBox with
> > 01-01-01.
> > Which of course is not what I want to show my user. I'd much prefer
> > a blank
> > control or what VFP displays " / / "
> >
> >
> > If I do a double click on the control the calendar pops open but of
> > course the
> > year for the calendar is 01 (1901?). I think it would be best if the
> > calendar dialog used today's date to start.
>
> If you want to default to today, use this:
>
> import datetime
> biz.DefaultValues = {"myDateField", datetime.date.today}
>
> > I also can not use any of the shortcut keys. Even when I force one
> > of the
> > short keys though (using my debugger) I get an exception from
> > dDateTextBox.
> > NameError: name 'year' is not defined. Which I think is coming from
> > the
> > following section of the code:
> > if isDateTime:
> > try:
> > ret = datetime.datetime(year, month, day, hr,
> > mn, sec)
> > except:
> > if not testing:
> > # Don't fill up the logs with error
> > messages from tests that
> > # are expected to fail.
> > dabo.errorLog.write(_("Invalid datetime
> > specified: %s") % val )
> > ret = None
> > else:
> > try:
> > ret = datetime.date(year, month, day)
> > except:
> > if not testing:
> > # Don't fill up the logs with error
> > messages from tests that
> > # are expected to fail.
> > dabo.errorLog.write(_("Invalid date
> > specified: %s") % val )
> > ret = None
> > return ret
> >
> > I'm guessing that the 'year','month','day' are not being defined
> > first.
>
> I'm not seeing this, but then again, I'm not getting string values in
> my date Values, either. Let me look into it further.
>
> -- Ed
Now I recall why I did the bizobj.new(). I wanted to show the user a blank
dDateTextBox control.
Even with the update() or the self.Form.new(datasource) I still can't use the
shortcut keys.
--
John Fabiani
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