You simply need to put in your own EditMask to override it.
I presume you are using the date only column or are flagging the column as
NOTIME in the ColumnAttributes property.

Regards,
Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Leclerc" <mlpgr@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [IBO] OBO4 and date display


> Hi,
>
> I have just updated to the latest 4_2_Ed prior to retesting this issue. I
> have grids, IB_Date and IB_Text in this application that are used to
> edit/show dates and all display the wrong way wether focuses or not, the
> edit mask seems to always be 00/00/0000 regardles of any windows settings.
>
> There is also an issue of refreshing the grids I found while playing with
> this. While the app was running I was changing the date format in the
> control pannel but the grid would not reflect the changes until I click on
> each row one at a time...
>
> Regards
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Geoff Worboys" <geoff@...>
> To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 10:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [IBO] OBO4 and date display
>
>
> > > As anyone experience problem with date display. On
> > > Win2k if I set the format to yyyy-MM-dd I end-up
> > > with the date displayed as "01-08- 30" in every
> > > control. some other legal format seem to have the
> > > same problem. dd/MM/yyyy works fine though.
> >
> > I thought I remembered seeing this before - you asked this back at the
> > end of June (on IBO4 beta A2). Jason said he thought he knew what the
> > problem was but then the problem appears to have been overlooked
> > since.
> >
> > Can you confirm the version you are using?
> >
> > Also: Does the display problem occur only when a control has focus or
> > only when they do not have focus or what? Or to put it another way,
> > does the problem appear any different when the control lose or gain
> > focus?
> >
> > The reason for asking is that, when no other editmask/display format
> > is defined, IBO uses an editmask when the control is focused (and I
> > suspect that edit mask may be constructed in appropriately for your
> > date format). However when the control does not have focus the date
> > should be formatted according to the system ShortDateFormat - and as
> > such I would expect the controls to appear correct when not focused.
> >
> > Geoff Worboys
> > Telesis Computing
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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