I could be mistaken but it sounded like he wanted to turn a string of
characters of known formatting into a DateTimeType struct. I agree that it
would be foolish to have the user enter in dates rather than use the Date
Picker.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul
> Bohme
> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 4:16 PM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: RE: Simple (?) question about dates and strings
>
>
> This is actually one of those things that sounds simple until
> you actually
> implement it. Little things like people that use a different format -
> DD/MM/YY instead of MM/DD/YY. If you create a custom edit
> control that only
> allows two digits in between each slash, this has a chance of
> working. Then
> again, a user forced to enter "01" instead of just "1", or made
> to tap three
> different times on a control to enter "1/1/00" isn't going to be a happy
> user. If you're not going to enforce this kind of input
> filtering, then you
> have to be ready for people that'll do MM-DD-YY or MM-DD-YYYY or
> DD-MM-YYYY
> or ....
>
> See what I mean? Ugliness pronto.. Makes me appreciate the built-in
> control for prompting for date/times.
>
> -P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: P. Alan Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 8:41 AM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: RE: Simple (?) question about dates and strings
>
>
> Why not simply pick off the month, day, year characters then turn
> them into
> ints and set the members of the DateTimeType struct yourself? Seems the
> easiest way to me.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken
> > Krugler
> > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 10:45 AM
> > To: Palm Developer Forum
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Simple (?) question about dates and strings
> >
> >
> > At 12:00am -0700 00-09-29, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
> > >Subject: Simple (?) question about dates and strings
> > >From: "wheeler wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:57:49 -0400
> > >X-Message-Number: 100
> > >
> > >Have I missed something? I need to convert a CharPtr (eg.
> > "09/28/00") to a
> > >DateTimeType. Is there a function that does this? I see the
> reverse is
> > >available to create a string based on a date. Thanks.
> >
> > Nope, you're on your own. Note that Palm OS software typically uses
> > the SelectDay() routine, which avoids having to parse manually
> > entered date strings.
> >
> > -- Ken
> >
> > Ken Krugler
> > TransPac Software, Inc.
> > <http://www.transpac.com>
> > +1 530-470-9200
> >
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