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    Popup.Calendar

    Apparently The popup calendar will not return a date to a date field. If you use a character field for a date field you cannot then use date arithmetic. I was wondering if a calendar can be assigned to a button without returning any value to a field? Just a popup calendar for user convenience..
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    Re: Popup.Calendar

    Originally posted by KarlS View Post
    Apparently The popup calendar will not return a date to a date field. If you use a character field for a date field you cannot then use date arithmetic. I was wondering if a calendar can be assigned to a button without returning any value to a field? Just a popup calendar for user convenience..
    The documentation doesn't suggest that assigning the result to anything is required. Have you tried a button with the code

    popup.calendar(dtoc(date()))
    There can be only one.

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      Re: Popup.Calendar

      Stan,

      I have been trying to figure out what the code argument is for returning a date value to a date field from the popup calendar function attached to a button. Rather than putting a button on the date header in an imbedded browse (causes the browse header to get fat and ugly), I would like to put a hotspot on the area so when the user clicks on it the popup calendar appears and the selected date is returned to the date field. Do you have that code or know where I can find it?

      The code for assigning the F11 key is what I use now but it isn't very intuitive for the user unless you provide a label instruction which is cludgy to the user interface. I believe the correct way to handle it is by assigning the right code to a hotspot. Thanks.

      Regards,
      Gordon

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        Date_String as C = POPUP.CALENDAR( Default_Date_String as C )
        Date_Value as D = CTOD( Formatted_Date as C )
        So CTOD(POPUP.CALENDAR( Default_Date_String as C ))

        yields a date.

        Is that the question?
        There can be only one.

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          Re: Popup.Calendar

          Thanks Stan,

          No, it didn't do what I needed but the following did exactly what I wanted. This script will pop the selected calendar date into whatever date field has the focus. It only seems to work with the hotspot object tool. The button object tool causes the selected date field to lose the focus and the date doesn't drop into the field. Using a hotspot object also requires the use of an underlying static text object in order to give the hotspot form and appearance... otherwise you don't see the hotspot. I bold the text, give the text object background color, some drop shadow, and small rounded corners so that it appears to be a button. The secret is to make sure the invisible hotspot lies in front of the text object in order to function.

          sDate=popup.calendar ("Enter Date",dtoc(date()))
          a_user.key.handled = .T.
          sys_send_keys(sDate)

          The following will give you the calculator and drop the calculated value in whatever numeric field has the focus.

          sNum=popup.calculator (0)
          a_user.key.handled = .T.
          sys_send_keys(sNum)

          The way to do this is save these scripts and then call them by name with another script. This way they are available anywhere you need to call them with a hotspot/text button, utilising the onpush event.

          I was just so tired yesterday I just couldn't extract these lines from some other code listed on this site.

          Regards,
          Gordon

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