I have a TDBEdit connected to an IBOQuery field that's a TDateTime.
When this field gets displayed, I get a validation error because
there's some strange interaction between whatever formats the field
and the masking stuff.

For instance, if I use today's date (8/16/2006), then the fact that
there's no leading zero seems shift things over, so that when the
data gets copied into TDBEdit.Text behind the scenes, it comes out
as 8//6//006.

If I then put the cursor on the field and give it focus, the text
immediately changes to 8/16/2006 and all is well.

Naturally, I can't reproduce this in an isolated case, it only
happens when the whole big ugly application is running. I suspect
it has to do with the fact that this field gets changed via a
different query and the one that's being used for display gets
refreshed, but I can't prove it yet.

Has anyone ever seen anything like this?

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Michael D. Spence
Mockingbird Data Systems, Inc.