Cheers Dennis that works. The chocolate fish is yours.
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Behalf Of Dennis Chuah
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 3:55 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: RE: [DUG]: TDateTimePicker/Win32
Have you tried hooking the CreateWnd event and putting the code in there?
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> Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2001 12:21
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> Subject: RE: [DUG]: TDateTimePicker/Win32
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>
> Another good use is to set the format to 'h:mm tt' for the time
> mode to get
> rid of those stupid seconds. You obviously also figured out you need
> commctrl in uses clause which I left out. After writing this I thought to
> myself I really should see if I could put code into a enhanced
> component of
> TDateTimePicker as I'm often using this code. Plus add the
> ability to choose
> several formats. My first attempt failed however after putting
> the code into
> the create event after inherited (then tried a onshow event). I'll gladly
> trade my virtual chocolate fish if someone else succeeds in this quest.
> P.S another tip on this is if your datetimepicker is on a
> tabcontrol thats
> not shown you will need to place this code in the tabcontrols
> onshow event.
>
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> Behalf Of Peter Hyde
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 11:25 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: RE: [DUG]: TDateTimePicker/Win32
>
>
> Alan wrote:
>
> > DFormat := 'ddd dd/MMM/yyyy';
> > DateTimePicker1.Perform( DTM_SETFORMAT , DWORD(NIL) , DWORD(DFormat)
> > );
>
> Fascinating. On further research with the above hint, I find that if
> there is a dddd or a MMMM in there, or if the dd is made into a
> simple 'd', the fix falls apart and the formatting gets ugly again.
>
> It just can't cope with long day or month names, i.e. any field which
> significantly changes width. What a truly dumb control.
>
>
> cheers,
> peter
>
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