Use the Fields Editor and then pick up the OnGetText event for the
explicitly defined date field. Then format the input as you please and put
into Text.
So, it's not the Grid you are adding properties to but to the DB field. You
can also modify the column header for the date field.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Coulter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 4:44 PM
Subject: RE: [DUG]: Time in a DB Grid
> If I understand you right Patrick, I have to add a property/s tot he
DBGrid
> ?
>
> Jeremy. Coulter
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 4:37 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > Subject: RE: [DUG]: Time in a DB Grid
> >
> >
> > Quoting Jeremy Coulter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > > well I had tried that.
> > > But if I make the table active at designTime, the formating
> > looks fine, BUT
> > > at run time it doesn't use the formating.
> > > ALSO, I make the header text centered, and this also doesn't
> > get uses, i.e.
> > > they stay left aligned !
> >
> > You can format anything you want in a control by assigning a
> > persistent field
> > and then implementing the OnGetText or OnSetText event handler
> > for the TField.
> >
> > Off the top of my head I don't remember which is which but I have
> > used these
> > extensively in a project to do all sorts of things, like formatting time
> > without the seconds (which is displayed by default), letting users type
.
> > instead of : and entering more than 24 hours into a time field.
> >
> > One of the events is used for displaying and the other for editing.
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