At 15:44 Thursday, 04.07.2002 +0200, you wrote:

>Dirk,
>OK, it sounds good, but again: when I type a number (for ex. 8) and want to
>move to another column, I receive a message "8: : is not a valid time". My
>ShortTimeFormat variable is h:mm.

just as a side note:
ShortTimeFormat should be 'h:nn' (instead of 'h:mm') although I think that
Delphi
internally converts this for you. ('m' already stands for 'month').

>Playing with NODATE and field format gets
>no results. It is annoying, that user MUST fill all the numbers and before
>the IBO Hc update he simply filled ONLY ONE.
>Thank you for you attention and time.
>Ales