Subject Re: [IBO] Re: TIB_Date " / / "
Author Raymond Kennington
Marco Menardi wrote:
>
> Tracing the code I've found that a workaround is:
> EditMask=99C99C99;0
> and, for a better looking behaviour
> DisplayFormat=dd/mm/yyyy (or mm/dd/yyyy)
> I would be curious to know the behaviour of standard VCL, since the
> problem seems from standard VCL mask interpretation.
> But, I think that your customer is really short sight one...
> How can he prefer typing '/' all the time?
> regards
> Marco Menardi

When one enters dates in documents one gets used to typing a date without thinking. The
slashes are automatic. It's quicker to enter them than not. Then all date entries in all
products become the same.

I've had demands from clients to remove edit-masks completely, in particular for dates.
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Raymond Kennington
Programming Solutions
W2W Team B