FM 7 - Date Picker

[sbg2]

Solution: FM 7 - Date Picker

Description: I know this is included with version 8 (or so) but I am still stuck in version 7. The only other example I could find when I searched these forums was a version that was done in Developer 7. Since it used features I could not access I decided to try and create a date picker in plain v7.

I used the MS Outlook date picker as a model(which may be the Windoze system date picker).

Features so far:

* 7 week calendar with week numbers

* Change Year through pop-up custom dialog

* Backward and Forward navigation by month

Working Under:

Solution Status: Beta

Pre-requisites:

Author(s) sbg2

Date: 06/15/07

Credits:

Instructions / Other Info: User = Admin

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[Lee Smith]

Did you forget a little something?

(hint sample file)

Lee

:cool:

[Genx]

LOL!!

[sbg2]

Whoops. File now attached.

Also, the calendar is only a 6 week calendar not 7 as stated in my original post.

Edit: Can anyone explain why hiding the status area on this solution greatly increases the time it takes to set the global date field?

I created a new blank file with one global field and a button that performs one script step - Set Field [MyGlobal; Timestamp ( Get(CurrentDate) ;Get(CurrentTime))]. If the status area is hidden sometimes it takes upwards of 2 seconds to set the field, with the status area shown it is almost instantanious.

DatePicker.zip

[sbg2]

Version 2

* Added the feature to highlight current date in red.

* Added the feature to pick-up the field location and pop-up the DatePicker "under" the field. This requires a simple script for each Layout field.

~ Currently no testing is done to determine if pop-up window will be "off-screen".

Example atttached includes seperate file showing how the DatePicker file can be attached to (hopefully) any external FM DB file.

DatePicker_v2_.zip

[sbg2]

Version 3

* added Month Jumper

* Date fields now give the option to enter date manually or pop-up the date picker.

DatePicker_v3.zip

[Raybaudi]

Hi sbg2

what about a Time Picker ?

[sbg2]

Hi sbg2

what about a Time Picker ?

That's not something I have considered. At this point I personally don't have any need for it.