Joe,

My experience, right or wrong technically, has been that if the object exposes the property through the OCX interface (right click on the object that is shown on a form in the development environment, choose the properties option at the bottom of the popup) then I can access it, set it, and read it.

Like you, I have noticed that sometimes you have to include .object. and sometimes you don't.

In other words, sometimes it's
    thisform.<ControlName>.object.value
and sometimes it's
    thisform.<ControlName>.value

No idea why but I've never noticed it causing a problem when .object. is used...unless it isn't necessary, in which case you'll find out soon enough when you try to use that property.

Hope this helps.

Mike Copeland


Joe Yoder wrote:
Thanks guys for the pointers with directions and examples!

I should be able to find answers going forward now that I can get to the
properties.

I am still puzzled about how the VFP properties sheet lines up with the
active-x control properties.  Some of the VPF properties don't seem to work
as expected.  Why are they there if they don't work?  Is a developer
supposed to know that s/he should not expect them to work?

Thanks again,

Joe

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Philip Borkholder <[email protected]>
wrote:

Joe,
Doug Henning has a good posting on the use of it here:

http://doughennig.blogspot.com/2008/06/using-microsoft-date-and-time-picker.html

And here's a good article on using it in a grid

http://weblogs.foxite.com/sandstorm36/2009/08/25/datetime-picker-in-a-grid-how-toupdated/

-Philip

On 7/16/2015 7:57 PM, Joe Yoder wrote:

I have discovered by looking at others code that one can access properties
of the control via:

     -  thisform.<ControlName>.object.value
     -  thisform.<ControlName>.object.MinDate
     -  thisform.<ControlName>.object.MaxDate

I am sure there are more properties but since they don't show in the VFP
Properties window I don't know what they are or where to go to find them.

I have not figured out how to use a datetime field in a table as the
control source for such a control either.  The properties window allows me
to set a control source but the field and display values don't stay
matched.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance,

Joe


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