I think the problem is in the field's mask or the control's mask

Dany

--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:
>
> At 07:08 AM 17/08/2006, you wrote:
> >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?
>
> It sounds as though the data might be stored in some string type,
> rather than a date/time type.
>
> Helen
>