Date_to_calendar Cancel valuel

[Tom Patten]

What's the problem with the following. I want CANCEL to result in no change or END the process.

date_string = ui_get_date_calendar("Calendar",dtoc(date()))

if date_string <> "" then
Activities:Goal_Date.value = ctod(date_string)
parentform.commit()
end if

END

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The above always enter today's date. What value does the CANCEL button give?

Thanks ~ Tom

[Stan Mathews]

Re: Date_to_calendar Cancel valuel

I suppose it means cancel changing the value.

Your script would work if you used

date_string = ui_get_date_calendar("Calendar",dtoc({}))

[Tom Patten]

Re: Date_to_calendar Cancel valuel

Stan,

I want the default value to be today's date, dtoc(date() ); but if CANCEL is selected I want the process to END.

~ Tom

[Tom Patten]

Re: Date_to_calendar Cancel valuel

You're absolutely correct. I shouldn't question the master.

Thanks Much ~ Tom

[MoGrace]

Re: Date_to_calendar Cancel valuel

This also displays today's date highlighted but if cancel is selected then the result is blank

?ui_get_date_calendar("Calendar",null_value())
= ""

[Tom Patten]

Re: Date_to_calendar Cancel valuel

Thanks Robin. I'm finally moving my app to V11 from V4 and its a learning curve. I appreciate all the help I can get. ~ Tom

[Tom Patten]

Re: Date_to_calendar Cancel valuel

Still thinking about this: ui_get_date_calendar("Calendar",null_value())

What if I wanted to pass in a default date, then test for cancel being pressed?

[Stan Mathews]

Re: Date_to_calendar Cancel valuel

SOL

Either the documentation is wrong or you've found an undocumented feature.

[MoGrace]

Re: Date_to_calendar Cancel valuel

Still thinking about this: ui_get_date_calendar("Calendar",null_value())

What if I wanted to pass in a default date, then test for cancel being pressed?

In the other ui functions, pressing cancel clears the result. This does not seem to be the case here once a value is passed in. Perhaps it was an oversight by the developer.

[Stan Mathews]

Re: Date_to_calendar Cancel valuel

I think it will work the way you want if you reset the date_string variable to null just before you use the ui....

date_string = ""
date_string = ui_get_date_calendar("Calendar",dtoc(date()))
if date_string <> "" then
Activities:Goal_Date.value = ctod(date_string)
parentform.commit()
end if

Cancel here and the date string remains null. Probably means the date_string variable was keeping, as it should, any previously chosen value.

[Tom Patten]

Re: Date_to_calendar Cancel valuel

Stan,

Nope. That doesn't work, but I like the idea of being able to pass a date to the calendar. But mostly, I want to be able to pick from a calendar presentation and have cancel result in ""

Tom

[Stan Mathews]

Re: Date_to_calendar Cancel valuel

I think you do have a reportable issue since you are seeing the behavior in V11. I'm assuming V11 is following what V10 does below.

V8

date_string = ""
date_string = ui_get_date_calendar("Calendar",dtoc(date()))

' cancel chosen
? date_string
= ""

V10

date_string = ""
date_string = ui_get_date_calendar("Calendar",dtoc(date()))

' cancel chosen
? date_string
= "01/17/2012"

[Tom Patten]

Re: Date_to_calendar Cancel valuel

bug report sent. Thanks to all.

[MoGrace]

Re: Date_to_calendar Cancel valuel

Stan,
Oh well, so much for v10 getting fixed...

[csda1]

Re: Date_to_calendar Cancel valuel

Hi Tom P.

The code for that function is basically an XBasic wrapper that uses a5_GetDateHTML() if a style is set, or a5_calendar() if a blank style.

If you use a5_GetDateHTML(), with or without a style, it works perfectly returning a null string "" when cancelled. I suggest you just use this.

a5_calendar() does not handle the cancel button and close box X correctly.