DTPicker Please Replace it

I am unable to understand why Microsoft did not offer HANDLE of this control, it's EDIT box is s***

Is there any other Control (FREE) :) which do the same as DTPicker but also give User, handy way of enter date, NOT enter DD value and then use arrow key to go MM area for entry.

If there is no such type control, then please any one can guide me to How to validate Date other than CDate function, i mean Leap Year, days in the month like these...

Thanks in advance...

Looking forward to your help, suggestion any thing...

Is the dropdown on the dtPicker not enough? I don't know of any other free controls.

If you end up having to do your own validation use the isDate Function.

isDate("02\29\2000")
'Returns true

Actually Harvester, that will return false because you are using the forward slash! For dates you use the backward slash. ;)

How are they going to be entering a date? DD/MM/YY? Or do you have four position for year?

Well this is something you can try to work with. Just create a text box and the user will enter a date in the textbox. Let me know if you need any other help.

VB Code:

Private Sub Text1_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
    'only allow numbers in our textbox
    Select Case KeyAscii
    Case 48 To 57, 8
        'numbers 0-9 and Backspace
    Case Else
        KeyAscii = 0
    End Select
End Sub
Private Sub Text1_KeyUp(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
    Select Case KeyCode
    Case 8  'Backspace
    Case 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 96 To 105 '0 to 9
        Dim lngTextPos As Long
        Dim strText As String
        
        'save where the user's cursor was
        lngTextPos = Text1.SelStart
        'adjust position for slashes
        If lngTextPos = 2 Then lngTextPos = 3
        If lngTextPos = 5 Then lngTextPos = 6
        
        strText = Text1.Text
        
        'first lets get just the numbers
        strText = Replace(strText, "/", "")
        'there can only be 6 numbers!
        strText = Left$(strText, 6)
        
        'now let's put the slashes back in where they belong
        Select Case Len(strText)
        Case 0 To 1
            strText = strText
        Case 2
            strText = strText & "/"
        Case 3
            strText = Left$(strText, 2) & "/" & Right$(strText, 1)
        Case 4
            strText = Left$(strText, 2) & "/" & Right$(strText, 2) & "/"
        Case 5
            strText = Left$(strText, 2) & "/" & Mid$(strText, 3, 2) & "/" & Right$(strText, 1)
        Case 6
            strText = Left$(strText, 2) & "/" & Mid$(strText, 3, 2) & "/" & Right$(strText, 2)
        End Select
        
        'replace the text in the textbox with
        ' our "formatted" text
        Text1.Text = strText
        
        'return to where the user's cursor was
        Text1.SelStart = lngTextPos
    End Select
End Sub
Private Sub Text1_LostFocus()
    If IsDate(Text1) = False Then
        MsgBox "Invalid Date", vbOKOnly, "Invalid Date"
        Text1.SetFocus
    End If
End Sub

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Make sure to set the textbox to 8 max length

Thank you... very much... this is really a goooood help.... Thank you..

But what about the leap year checking ... for example I give '30/02/01' to the text and it still validate it correctly, also when i give '31/09/03' this date it also validate it, even '31' is not available in the September month.

How i a can figure out these, my first thinking is that i creat an Array and put DAYS count in it and check it accordingly, but what about the leap year, YEAR divided by 4 .... :( could not figuring out... i am working on it, if u give me any idea... it wil be helpful...

Thanx in advance to alllllllllll

Oh you know what, I expect people to enter the day as MM/dd/yy. Ok but here is something I do besides using IsDate to validate my dates.

VB Code:

Public Function Valid_Date(ByVal sDate As String) As Boolean
    Dim nMonth As Integer
    Dim nDay As Integer
    Dim sYear As String
    Dim Valid As Boolean
    Dim nNumOfDays(1 To 12) As Integer
    On Error GoTo ErrHandler
    Valid = True
   
    If Len(sDate) <> 8 Then
         Valid = False
    Else
        nMonth = CInt(Left$(sDate, 2))
        nDay = CInt(Mid$(sDate, 4, 2))
        sYear = Right$(sDate, 2)
 
        nNumOfDays(1) = 31
        'check if year is leap year
        If IsDate("02/29/" & sYear) Then
            nNumOfDays(2) = 29
        Else
            nNumOfDays(2) = 28
        End If
        nNumOfDays(3) = 31
        nNumOfDays(4) = 30
        nNumOfDays(5) = 31
        nNumOfDays(6) = 30
        nNumOfDays(7) = 31
        nNumOfDays(8) = 31
        nNumOfDays(9) = 30
        nNumOfDays(10) = 31
        nNumOfDays(11) = 30
        nNumOfDays(12) = 31
 
        If nMonth < 1 Or nMonth > 12 Then
            Valid = False
        ElseIf nDay < 1 Or nDay > nNumOfDays(nMonth) Then
            Valid = False
        End If
  End If
  Valid_Date = Valid
 
ErrHandler:
    If Err.Number <> 0 Then
        ErrorTrap Err.Number, Err.Description, "Functions", "Valid_Date"
        Exit Function
    End If
End Function

Oh and if you do want users to enter the day as dd/MM/yy then do this.

VB Code:

'change this code
nMonth = CInt(Left$(sDate, 2))
nDay = CInt(Mid$(sDate, 4, 2))
 
'to this
nDay = CInt(Left$(sDate, 2))
nMonth = CInt(Mid$(sDate, 4, 2))

syedhassan4:

May I ask why you started out asking about the handle for the dtp?

I am guessing he was trying to subclass it.

If subclassing, why not just use FindWindow?
Then during subclassing you can manipulate it however you want?

That is, if this is what he was thinking of doing.

Check out my banked code for DTPs dropdown by code.
DTP DropDown by code

DTPs are better than using Textboxes.

How would you use FindWindow for a control? Also your example has nothing to do with subclassing, but it is still pretty nice stuff. :)

But I don't understand why he mentioned that it doesn't not have a handle, because the way I see it, it does.

Thanks.

Every "control" is created upon a "window" or nested "windows"
and every control has a handle. You just need to know how to
obtain it.

If you subclass you will need to know if the messages are
pertaining to the correct control you want.
You would use something like FindWindow, FindowWindowEx,
and GetWindowLong. These will help you get the ControlID of the
control to make sure you are working on the right control during
subclassing.

Also, the wParam and lParam contain valuable info too.