datetimePickerAdv Problems

[Tom Affholter]

Syncfusion 3.3.0.12
VS2003
Visual Basic

Hi Folks,

I am having some difficulties coding the datetimePickerAdv.

First, I want the format MM/dd/yyyy. When the user type 2 digits I want it to jump to the next field (working). I also want it to jump to the next field should the user press a '/'.

Is there a way to allow 2 digit year and supply a logical 2 digit century (07=2007, 99=1999)? This also leads me to the next challenge, default years. I might be wrong, but it seems like defaulting to either 2000 or 1900 only fits half the solution when both centuries are commonly entered. Sees like 2 digit dates 0-40 should default to 2000 and 41-99 to 1900 to be effective.

But my current problem is bigger. I created a basic form with only the datetimePickerAdv control. I have 1900 as digit year. I have format set to short. When I enter a year in the field, I cannot get it to format the year properly. In fact, unless I use the calendar and point to a date, I cannot change the year other than the rightmost digit. I cannot type in any 4 digit year. This must be a simple fix I am overlooking. Your demos seem to work but I cannot see any property settings that might cause this. I recently downloaded and installed 3.3.0.12.

I appreciate your help.

Tom

[Golda Rebecal]

Hi Tom,

Issue 1: Forwarding to the next field when "/" key is pressed

You can achieve this by customizing DateTimePickerAdv and overriding the ProcessCmdKey method

//To forward to next field when "/" key is pressed

protected override bool ProcessCmdKey(ref Message msg, Keys keyData)
{
if (this.TabForwarding && msg.WParam.ToInt32() == (int)Keys.Divide)
{
SendKeys.Send("{Tab}");
return true;
}

return base.ProcessCmdKey(ref msg, keyData);

}

I have attached a sample that illustrates the same. Please have a look at it and let me know if this meets your requirement

Issue 2: Only the rightmost digit of the year field is edited when the format is set to Short

I am able to reproduce the issue in v3.3. I checked this issue in v4.4 and found it working fine. Could you please consider upgarding to this version? If so, you can download it from the following location:

http://www2.syncfusion.com/Installs/v4.4.0.51/SyncfusionEssentialStudioSetup.exe

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Best regards,
Golda