Dialog Input

Sbhat

Hi Folks,

In the below code when i enter 'T' in my input it returns 3/28/06 instead of todays date. It assumes T for Tuesday. idea how do i get to print Todays date.

w.OPEN('Enter todays date ##1#######');
w.INPUT(1,tdate);

MESSAGE('%1',tdate);

Regards
SB.

ara3n

Hello Sbhat
I saw this as well today filtering in object designer on t and it would change to tuesday. It stopped doing it now. So I don't know how this happened.


I would set tdate := today as default. That way they don't have to put anything in there.

Sbhat

Hi Rashed,

Unfortunately 'tdate' is a user input and i cannot force it as today. The weird part is tdate is a variable of type 'Date' and i dont understand why it does not like 'T' and considers it as Tuesday instead of Today.

Regards
SB.

easabangan

Try using this code :

W.OPEN('Enter todays date' + '#1#######');
W.INPUT(1,txtDate);
W.CLOSE;
IF UPPERCASE(txtDate) = 'T' THEN
   tDate := TODAY
ELSE
   EVALUATE(tDate, txtDate);


MESSAGE('%1',tDate);

Note : txtDate has the data type of text.

ara3n

Sure you can force it

w.OPEN('Enter todays date ##1#######');
tdate := today;
w.INPUT(1,tdate);

MESSAGE('%1',tdate);

I would actually report this to MS. It is definitely a bug.
Personally, I don't use dialogs for inputs. They have horrible user interface, and slow performance, in terms that if you have in middle of your routine, other people will be locked out.

kriki

ara3n wrote:

...slow performance, in terms that if you have in middle of your routine, other people will be locked out.

If you update your dialogbox every loop, yes it slows down a lot. But if you update the dialogbox less (lets say once every 3 seconds) it doesn't slow down. I always use a slider that I update once every 3 seconds.

kine

to Kriki: yes, but this is about Input Dialog box, which is waiting for the user input during the opened transaction. It means same problems like Confirm in transaction... big deadlocks, lock chains etc... :-)

ara3n

Thanks kine

kriki

:oops: didn't read the code-part in the post of ara3n. I was only thinking about progress bars.