I have a process which grabs the birthdate and from a data table and display them in a masked text box for viewing and editing
However when pushing the data into the textbox any preceding zeros get removed
For example 05/05/2005 would display as 55/20/05__
The masked Text box is set up as 00/00/0000
The line which assigns the code is:
MaskedTextBox.Text = Format(DataTable(0)("DOB"), “MM/dd/yyyy”).ToString
To date I have tried the following:
Delete and re-add the control
Copy masked textbox from another form
in the same program
Above Masked textbox grabs the same
information from the same database
table and is formatted exactly the
same and it works
Tried various different formats
including no format all with the same
result
Does anyone have any other suggestions?
I've been able to replicate the problem but currently there doesn't seem to be a solution. What you need is a binding navigator toolbar on the top of your form with your data bound masked text box with any mask (doesn't matter which one). When you run the form, initially the masked text box will accept the data just fine. However, if you click the "AddNewItem" button (the plus sign button) on your binding navigator toolbar, it will cause the masked text box to delete all preceding zeros when you try to enter a date. It seems all masks will do this. Rebuilding the form won't fix it, either. It happens every time you hit the "AddNewItem" button and then proceed to enter data into any formatted masked text box.
Now that I've found out exactly how to replicate the problem, hopefully someone more knowledgeable can come along to figure out how to circumvent this. It seems like it is a glitch within VB. Don't know if this constitutes as an actual "answer" but I have provided a clear path to finding a solution. I just don't have the know-how to get that far.
(Update: I discovered that it does this to all masks, not just "short date" masks)
I think I am going to have to put this in "Mysteries of the Unexplained " box.
At the advice of another developer I manually recreated the form, re-added all the controls and it now works fine (copy and pasting all the controls from one form to another caused the issue to come with it).
I really don't know how to even recreate the issue must be something in the forms design level code???
Anyway thanks for all the assistance from everyone.
Try converting the Datatable data to date and back:
MaskedTextBox.Text = Date.Parse(DataTable(0)("DOB")).ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")
My guess is that either the database is sending the date in a format you don't expect, you changed the control's Culture (under Behaivior properties), or that you changed the way your computer shows dates and thus changed its culture. However I try I can't replicate the problem with my culture settings.
I had the same problem with Masked a Text Box control that was added at runtime. I was just trying to add the date of the day to the control
Visual studio 2013
Dim Today As Date = Now.Date
tbox_ShipDate.Text = FormatDateTime(Today,DateFormat.ShortDate) 'Failed every time
Problem was solved by using
tbox_ShipDate.Text = Format(Today, "MM/dd/yyyy")
seemed to simple but all worked well
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I have a database where I don't want some fields showing depending on data in other fields. I'm still new to VBA, having learnt how to do things I need via the internet (there's not much call for it in my job so like to try it out on side projects) for the things I need and have managed to create some code that hides certain fields that aren't needed, depending on what's been entered in another field and that works okay, if not perfectly (I'd like it to only work on the current record and not all of them at once but will worry about that later). My problem is, if I'm entering information onto a record and any of those fields become invisible exactly as I would want them to, then if I have more records to complete and load a new record, those hidden fields are also hidden on the blank record before any data has been entered and I want each new record to show all fields from the outset.
Another thing I've noticed is that if I close the database, next time I go into it the hidden fields have unhidden themselves again so I know I'm missing something important.
Here's a screenshot of a bit of the code where I want 2 other fields (What_reason and Date_sent_to_new_owning_School) to be visible depending on whether the answer in the current field after update is "Standard" or "Non-standard":
I'm sorry if this is really entry-level stuff but I AM entry level and trying to learn. This bit does work, albeit not perfectly as I'd like it to only work on the record I'm in at the time, and not go through and hide that field in all the other records at once (which it's doing).
I've searched everywhere but can't find the answer and although I've tried, I'm nowhere near good enough at VBA to try and use common sense to work it out. Is this something that can be done? I'm okay with computers generally and with Access too but I'm aware there's an awful lot I don't know and this is why I'm trying to do new things and learn stuff that I've not used before. I have tried all day to get this to work but am admitting defeat and am hoping somebody here will be able to help me. I'll probably need 'idiot level' advice if that's possible, I know my limitations. :)
Do you know how to use the Event tab in the Property Sheet? You can set all of your fields to [field].Visible = True on either: On Current, On Load, or On Open
Screenshot of the Property Sheet and for the field that determines the visibility of all of the other fields; you can use the Event: After Update so that way when you click/tab away from that field, it'll make those changes for you!
Property setting affects ALL instances of control. Control will be visible/not visible for all records depending on conditions of current record. Therefore, dynamically hiding controls on form set in Continuous or Datasheet will NOT give the desired result of
only work on the current record and not all of them at once
Db is not going to 'remember' dynamic setting - code needs to be executed when form opens and/or navigating records - so it is needed in OnCurrent event as well as control's AfterUpdate.
Conditional Formatting can dynamically enable/disable textbox/combobox by record although control is still visible.
I've worked on multiple web-scraping projects using Excel VBA before, but I haven't encountered this problem before. I've been googling the issue for the past few hours, but I haven't found a solution yet.
Scenario:
My webpage consists of a list-box and a text box that acts as a filter/search. Unfortunately, I can't disclose the webpage information, but somewhere in the list box elements I saw the word "JQuery". After creating an HTMLInputElement, I set it to text box object and changed its value to "TEXT". I expected the list to get update, but nothing happened. I tried to use different approaches, but they all failed.
Text_Field.Focus
Text_Field.FireEvent "onclick"
Text_Field.Value = "TEXT"
Text_Field.Click
I managed to put the text in the text box, but the clicking part does not work. When I do it manually, as soon as I type the phrase into the text box, the list gets updated immediately. Any thoughts or suggestions?
I tried to simulate the "enter key" press, but it didn't work either.
Your help will be appreciated.
Best,
Arman
Event won't fire when you operate elements programmatically. you have to simulate the events too, using document.createEventObject/inputElement.fireEvent (IE8 or lower) or document.createEvent/inputElement.dispatchEvent (IE9+).
What event you need to fire depends on what the script is interested in (onkeypress, onblur, onpaste, etc).
I have a text field and I cannot drag my mouse and select the value/text within the text field in a vb.net application The cursor is stuck in the front of the text. However, just to check, I created another 'test' application containing a text field, and the mouse function is working fine. Mouse can be easily dragged to select the text field. I am completely lost here and any help in this subject matter would be really appreciated. I am wondering whether the fault lies with the application in itself.
Note: I have simply dragged and dropped a text-box from the toolbox of
visual studio and obtained those results. No special code written
Thanks in advance
You may need to check and set the TextBox's Enabled property to True
I have a report that contains a table of data this data is set to be intially collapsed using the initial toggle state property setting, however this does not happen the (sub-data) for want of abetter word still appears, and to make things even more confusing the icon that is placed at the side changes from the expected minus in expanded mode to a plus (which I would expect when the data is collapsed)
I have been trying to solve this for hours now but I cannot find a setting that will remedy the situation. I have tried selecting the row and edit group this allows me to set the rows to be exapnded by the relevant parent field, which I do set, but when applying the collapsed setting to the sub data, it is ignored.
Any help would be much appreciated thanks.
there seemed to be a strange error where if i edited the group directyly the group displayed the settings buit the page did nor solved by editing the page settings as well
Is it possible to have 2 areas of text in one cell such that each can have a different color? You can do this in crystal reports but I cannot see a way to do this in ReportViewer. What it is doing is essentially highlighting an important text fragment if it appears in a cell description to draw the users attention. I am fairly new to reportviewer so it for now I am assuming it's my lack of knowledge that is making this difficult. I am using VS2010.
Thanks.
Turns out VicarlnATutu wasn't quite right.
You can do this, but only if you are using VS2010 (which I am) because it includes the new SSRS rendering engine for SQL-Server 2008. This allows you to put some basic HTML into a field and have multiple formats in one cell. For more info see below:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645967.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627491.aspx
One thing that tripped me up is what they call a 'placeholder' in the MS documentation is the little bit of text inside the textbox control that shows up by default. You can select two different things on the control in VS2010. One is the textbox itself. Right clicking on the textbox gives you 'text box properties'. The other thing you can select is the default text INSIDE the textbox. Right clicking on this 'placeholder' text gives you a different context menu where you can select 'placeholder properties'. This is where you can change the cell to accept HTML.
No, unfortunately not. I don't know if there are custom controls out there for ReportViewer, but the built-in TextBox only supports setting color (be it Foreground or Background) for the entire thing.
ah, good to know. kind of a unintuitive way to tell a TextBox to display HTML, but nice to know that you can!