StarZen's Date form control: Difference between revisions
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(New page: == StarZen's Date Form control == This control offered by StarZen Technologies was built to allow the end user a more intuitive way of entering dates. The date form provided with Visu...) |
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=== Smart Date Entry === | === Smart Date Entry === | ||
Instead of using masking, which is hard on the end user this control uses smart data entry. It allows the end user to type a date in free form mode without any restrictions and will then extract the date the user entered. | |||
The control will substitute defaults for missing elements. These defaults for month and year can be set manually or be left to automatically use the current year and/or month. | |||
The control allows the end user to type a full date, day and month, day only, even a weekday or month name to set the date to the following day of week or to the first day of the entered month. | |||
=== Masked Date Display === | === Masked Date Display === | ||
The control allows the definition of a mask to show the entered date when the focus leaves the control. | |||
=== Show Date format when form is empty (optional) === | === Show Date format when form is empty (optional) === | ||
This optional feature allows the control to show the date format within the control while no data is entered to guide the end user when entering dates. | |||
[http://starzen.com/products/movies/dateform.htm Click here] to watch a movie of this control in action | [http://starzen.com/products/movies/dateform.htm Click here] to watch a movie of this control in action | ||