Chris
Wed Oct 15 18:19:05 CDT 2003
My original post was to get away from using a ComboBox, let alone mutliple
ComboBoxes. I'm usually dealing with a number of dates which are mangeable
in a single combo box... just going for GUI consistency when all days are
available (wireless) and when only some days are available...
I guess letting users click a day in cached mode with no information isn't
much different than them clicking a day in wireless mode with no
information... just seems like a waste for them to possibly select a date I
know will not have any chance of having information.
No biggie and thanks for the suggestions guys!
-Chris
"Tim Wilson [MVP]" <Tim_Wilson@[DieSpamDie]Rogers.com> wrote in message
news:%23liMKUgkDHA.3320@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> That sounds a little outside of the idea behind the MinDate and MaxDate
> properties as it appears that you might need to be able to select dates
that
> are not side-by-side. Have you considered simply putting the names of
months
> in a combobox and having a secondary combobox with the number of days in
the
> selected month. So when the user selects January (for example) you can
make
> sure that the second combobox has values 1-31 as possible selections (or
in
> this case only the dates that are cached). Since it sounds like the user
is
> only supposed to select one date at a time anyways this might be a
> respectable solution (and easy).
>
> --
> Tim Wilson
> Windows Embedded MVP
>
> "Chris Theorin" <slurptheoNO@SPAMslurptheo.PLEASEcom> wrote in message
> news:%23L7dlyfkDHA.976@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Thanks Tim!
> >
> > You're definately right that I don't need all the features of the
> DatePicker
> > here... but I'm aiming for UI consistency regardless of the "state" of
the
> > application here:
> > 1) When wireless I can request data for any date
> > 2) When not wireless I want to only be able to select dates with cached
> > information
> >
> > (: D
> > -Chris
> >
> > "Tim Wilson [MVP]" <Tim_Wilson@[DieSpamDie]Rogers.com> wrote in message
> > news:eY14WK1jDHA.424@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > The built-in (system) DateTimePicker that you are using, via a PInvoke
> > > wrapper, does have the ability to force the user to select between two
> > dates
> > > (MinDate and MaxDate). You can see this if you try using the
> > DateTimePicker
> > > in a .Net desktop application. So if you can live with allowing them
to
> > > select a range of continuous days then you should be able to do this
by
> > > making some modifications to the source code for the wrapper. But if
you
> > > want them to be able to select dates that are not "side-by-side" then
> you
> > > are really on your own here. Although it doesn't really sound like you
> > need
> > > all the features of a DateTimePicker, you could look into the fully
> > wrapped
> > > DateTimePicker here (
http://www.intelliprog.com/netcf/dtpicker.html)
to
> > get
> > > access to a .Net PPC control that has MinDate and MaxDate.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tim Wilson
> > > Windows Embedded MVP
> > >
> > > "Chris Theorin" <slurptheoNO@SPAMslurptheo.PLEASEcom> wrote in message
> > > news:eXjzmE1jDHA.3312@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > > > Thanks for the suggestion Paul.
> > > >
> > > > I'll have to examine this further to see if it makes sense or just
> ends
> > up
> > > > being too confusing for the end user (: D
> > > >
> > > > -Chris
> > > >
> > > > "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <ptobey_no_spam@instrument.com> wrote in
> message
> > > > news:%23dzjMA0jDHA.2616@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > > > > Chris,
> > > > >
> > > > > Sorry to say, I've never used the control myself, but one thing
you
> > > might
> > > > > try is to catch selection of a date and, if it's not one of the
days
> > you
> > > > > want to allow, change the selection programmatically to the
nearest
> > one
> > > > you
> > > > > *will* allow. It's not as good an interface as disabling all the
> > other
> > > > > days, but it might work.
> > > > >
> > > > > Paul T.
> > > > >
> > > > > "Chris Theorin" <slurptheoNO@SPAMslurptheo.PLEASEcom> wrote in
> message
> > > > > news:e9BI0QtjDHA.3316@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > > > > > I'm talking about the DateTimePicker from here:
> > > > > >
http://www.opennetcf.org/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=58
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I want to only allow some of the days to be selectable (like
> today,
> > > > > > yesterday, 2 days ago, and last week Thursday... only)... just
> seems
> > > > nicer
> > > > > > that a populated combo box (: D
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Any ideas/suggestions/"shoot downs"?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Chris Theorin
> > > > > >
http://slurptheo.com
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