good day. I have one doubt. is it possible to mark weekend days (eg: sunday) in different color and shows the week number in a drop-down calendar in the datetime picker in vb6. I search in web, but not get any useful information. anyone have idea, please give to me.thanks.
I'd say no.
The datetimepicker control is pretty limited.
You would either have to create your own custom control from scratch
or purchase a third party control with that behavior if one exists.
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Have you tried the DTPicker control in my CommonControls thread?
In this you can display the week numbers in the drop-down and even show the dates in bold (for example all sundays).
But the bold feature needs minimum Windows Vista, 7+.
But the week number feature is also working on XP.
I know this is an old thread but I hope my question isn't out of line here.
I just downloaded your VBCCR control and I'm very impressed so far.
I'm trying to use the date/time picker control, but something's weird. By default it appears to work. When I switch the property
CalendarShowWeekNumbers to True, however, clicking on the picker doesn't open the calendar view at all. Am I doing something wrong?
My apologies if there's some doc somewhere that I missed.
I tested both the OCX and non-OCX version of VBCCR15 and the calendar opened as it should. Did you by any chance accidentally set the UpDown property to True? This will show a UpDown button and the calendar will not open.
No, I didn't set the up/down property to true. I checked it, and I can see that this would not open the calendar indeed.
When I click the down arrow on the date picker, it loses focus on the mouse-down and nothing else happens.
BTW, I'm using VB5 here, but I wouldn't think that this would have anything to do with it.
Setting the property 'CalendarShowWeekNumbers' to FALSE makes it work just fine, but setting it to TRUE makes it fail again. So weird.
Ahhh, I think I got it - they need to be compiled AND themed, right? In the IDE the controls look totally different! Sorry if I missed that, it wasn't obvious to me.
Ahhh, I think I got it - they need to be compiled AND themed, right? In the IDE the controls look totally different! Sorry if I missed that, it wasn't obvious to me.
I'm just troubleshooting.
It should though work without theming. Or it's really not supported on comctl 5.8x.
Need to test it.
Many thanks, Krool. A great project, and breathes some new life in the dated VB GUI. If there's anything you want me to check or try please let me know.
Also, documentation of all the features is hard to find. Do you have a recommended doc? I'd work through my GUI and spiff it up if I'd know what cool new features are possible.
Thanks again, great work!
Yay it works now. In the IDE, and complied, and also compiled with the manifest. All looks great! Many thanks.
Any tip about what documentation to read?
You can do this using the MSCOMCT2.OCX DTPicker with a little finagling:
Code:
Option Explicit
Private Sub DTPicker1_DropDown()
DTPStylesEx DTPicker1, WeekNumbers:=True, NoTodayCircle:=True, NoToday:=True
End Sub
Private Sub DTPicker2_DropDown()
DTPStylesEx DTPicker2, WeekNumbers:=True
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Load()
'The default colors used by the creaky VB6 MSCOMCT2.OCX do not work well any more. Choose
'some safe colors that give decent visibility:
With DTPicker1
.CalendarTitleBackColor = vbHighlight
.CalendarTitleForeColor = vbHighlightText
End With
With DTPicker2
.CalendarTitleBackColor = vbHighlight
.CalendarTitleForeColor = vbHighlightText
End With
End Sub
However I agree that it is better to use the CC6-capable Win32 DTPicker when possible.
Ah, you mean to say that one doesn't need the whole new OCX, but can use the old one and pass some extra parameters in that DTPStylesEx function? I'll check it out also!
You can do this using the MSCOMCT2.OCX DTPicker with a little finagling:
Code:
Option Explicit
Private Sub DTPicker1_DropDown()
DTPStylesEx DTPicker1, WeekNumbers:=True, NoTodayCircle:=True, NoToday:=True
End Sub
Private Sub DTPicker2_DropDown()
DTPStylesEx DTPicker2, WeekNumbers:=True
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Load()
'The default colors used by the creaky VB6 MSCOMCT2.OCX do not work well any more. Choose
'some safe colors that give decent visibility:
With DTPicker1
.CalendarTitleBackColor = vbHighlight
.CalendarTitleForeColor = vbHighlightText
End With
With DTPicker2
.CalendarTitleBackColor = vbHighlight
.CalendarTitleForeColor = vbHighlightText
End With
End Sub
However I agree that it is better to use the CC6-capable Win32 DTPicker when possible.
You always have a lot of simple ways to solve problems.
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