[Gambas-user] More Date woes

[Benoit Minisini]

On vendredi 14 mars 2008, Richard wrote:
> I have hit another snag with date handling while working on the problem
> referred to above (see "Strange problem with Date Time and ValueBox").
>
> I use long form dates. I have done it for years. I like it that way.
> Gambas2 does not provide a mechanism (that I can find) to specify a default
> date format. When I set a ValueBox widget to display a date it is Gambas
> that decides whether it should be 13/03/2008 or 13/03/08 which seems to be
> governed by how I set the value.
>
> If I use:
>
>     StartDateBox.value = Now
>
> then I get a 4 digit year.
>
> If I use:
>
>     StartDateBox2.Value = Date(Now)
>
> then I get a 2 digit year.
>

This is a bug in ValueBox that forgets to reformat its contents after the 
Value property is set.

> Does anyone know of a way to define a format for a ValueBox which will work
> for both input and display?
>
> Richard
>

There is no way at the moment to change the format used for displaying the 
ValueBox contents.

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini