Increment and decrement dates with the [+] and [-] keys By Mike Coleman, Mike.Coleman@anixter.com If you注释:ve ever used Quicken, you注释:ve probably noticed a handy little feature in that program注释:s date fields. You can press the [+] key to increment one day, [-] to decrement one day, [PgUp] to increment one month, and [PgDn] to decrement one month. In this tip, we注释:ll show you how to emulate this behavior with Visual Basic.
First, insert a text box on a form (txtDate). Set its text property to "" and its Locked property to TRUE.
Now place the following code in the KeyDown event:
Private Sub txtDate_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer) 注释: 注释: 107 = "+" KeyPad 注释: 109 = "-" KeyPad 注释: 187 = "+" (Actually this is the "=" key, same as "+" w/o the shift) 注释: 189 = "-" 注释: 33 = PgUp 注释: 34 = PgDn 注释: Dim strYear As String Dim strMonth As String Dim strDay As String 注释: If txtDate.Text = "" Then txtDate.Text = Format(Now, "m/d/yyyy") Exit Sub End If 注释: strYear = Format(txtDate.Text, "yyyy") strMonth = Format(txtDate.Text, "mm") strDay = Format(txtDate.Text, "dd") 注释: Select Case KeyCode Case 107, 187 注释: add a day txtDate.Text = Format(DateSerial(strYear, strMonth, strDay) + 1, "m/d/yyyy") Case 109, 189 注释: sbutract a day txtDate.Text = Format(DateSerial(strYear, strMonth, strDay) - 1, "m/d/yyyy") Case 33 注释: add a month txtDate.Text = Format(DateSerial(strYear, strMonth + 1, strDay), "m/d/yyyy") Case 34 注释: subtract a month txtDate.Text = Format(DateSerial(strYear, strMonth - 1, strDay), "m/d/yyyy") End Select 注释: End Sub
The one nasty thing about this is that if you have characters that are not the characters usually in a date (i.e., 1-9, Monday, Tuesday, or /) you get errors in the format command. To overcome this, I set the Locked property to True. This way, the user can注释:t actually type a character in the field, but the KeyDown event still fires.[1]
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