On load (startup) default state - how?

[notwen]

Hi

I haven't used VB in decades and I'm restarting with what I thought would be a simple program.

I have two fields on a little form, both of which display a date (dd/mm/yyyy). Field1 is an entry field except on load where is contains a date calculated from field2 (which is 'now' upon application load). Field1 is 'now' + 10 days. This is the default state.

Once loaded (with the data described above), the user can input only in field1. Field2, an inactive field used only for display, is field1 - 10 days. After 15 seconds, fields 1 and 2 revert to their default states as described in the first paragraph.

I'm getting all messed up with the 'on load' state. Can anyone give me a bit of guidance, please? I'll start playing with the timer once I get the initial stuff done.

Thank you for any help.

Cheers,

Notwen

[incidentals]

is your onload
causing yo to have objects and item not available errors?

[notwen]

It's more a case of how to start the app with the two fields properly entered, Field2 with Now and Field1 with Field2+10days, just on startup. Only then allowing a user only to enter Field1 with a date.

I have the form built and that displays properly but I'm really fuzzy on the Private Sub StartupCode() Handles Me.Load part. Because I also use a datetimepicker (dtp) field and use a subroutine which runs when the dtp value changes, it seems to go there and run that code - after the initial startup (I think). So I believe that the default state just gets overwritten.

Am I explaining it properly?

Thanks

[incidentals]

ok now you are tallking

you are using

onload
textbox=now()

and the textbox_Change event fires briningup the datepicker - yes?

you want to stop the datepicker from being involved at the startup - yes?

is everything else ok so far?

here to talk

[notwen]

Yes, that's it.

I assume that simply entering something in the field (even using Me.Load startup handler) will fire the ValueChanged event and cause it to run.

How do I keep that from happening on the load (and subsequent timer event when I change it back to the default settings? Do I put all the code in the ValueChanged event instead?

Thank you

[incidentals]

simply put a value in a flag come where

a timer could be responsable for changing it

the flag (variable) whatever is to tested when th e textbox change event fires and the event exits when the flag is found

like

sub blah_event
if flag then exitsub
end sub

have you got the idea?

here to talk

[notwen]

Now why didn't I think of that?
Working on it now and it's almost there - including the timer.
Thank you for the helping hand, Incidentals!
Cheers!