> Customer has complained that they cannot edit the time, can
> only use the updown arrows, to adjust time in the IB_DateTimeEnh
> dropdown in a grid. The updown arrows are too laborious when
> moving several hours.

> Current work round is to edit the time in the grid after
> selecting the date in the dropdown.

> Is there a setting somewhere to allow the time edits to be
> entered and edited or is it a limitation?

The drop-down does not allow focus - intentionally - and this
prevents any sort of keyboard editing. Changing this behaviour
would be very difficult - and risks breaking other behaviour.

The time part of the date/time drop-down has always been poor.
To be honest I dont like the month or year parts much either.

The drop-down (on all the Enh combo controls) was always about
mouse editing, any design change to the drop-down will also be
about mouse editing. It was always intended and expected that,
if you want to type the value, you would type it in the
editable part of the control and not use the drop-down. [This
expectation is (probably) partly based on my own bias that I
hate constantly swapping between mouse and keyboard... let me
do one or the other.]

I have spent considerable time and imagination in trying to
come up with a _useful_ way to allow time entry via mouse. So
far none of the ideas have gotten past the experimental stage.

On top of all that I have so few places that users are expected
to enter date AND time, and in those few they seem to have been
happy enough to select the date from the drop-down and type in
the time, that I have not given the issue any priority.

OK, so there are the excuses/reasons for current behaviour.

If this problem is a priority to you then I suggest that the
_practical_ way to solve the problem is to remove the drop-down
and replace it with a modal dialog that shows when they hit
the down-arrow (I'd probably replace it with the ellipsis
button option).

Using a modal dialog lets you avoid all the problems that are
the reasons why the Enh drop-downs never receive (or at least
they never keep) keyboard focus. It also means you can create
a dialog that operates how you want. _IF_ you come up with
a dialog that is very very clever and can conceivably be
operated by only by mouse then I can show you how you could
create your own date-time drop-down.

That is the best I can offer at short notice.

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Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing