Re: Template

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Parmod Gandhi

Posted: 05/24/2004 20:36:50

I have dome something similar to this for Word Help Keyword combo box on the

top right corner.

I plan to do exactly what you are doing and have some ideas. I hope these

help.

1) Create an edit control (a field with or without border). Put in some

default text like 'Enter date here'. Make the text color gray or similar to

distinguish from real text.

2) When the user clicks (key down) on this field, clear the field if the

text is similar to what your default is. Let the user type in whatever or

you can help with default such as current date format choices.

3) If user enters something valid keep it or if the user leaves it blank

when the focus leaves, enter default text again.

4) If user ignores the field and continues with printing, replace it with

blank or current date based on application.

I hope this helps. I hope someone can expand on this idea or present

another solution here.

Parmod

"Hon Yuen, Ng" <hyng@[NoSpam]tm.net.my> wrote in message

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> have you ever seen Microsoft Word's template? In the template there a line

> of word e.g "Click to enter Date". If user click on this sentence, the

> sentence will be deleted so that user can enter the date at that section.

> How RVE achieve that?

> Thanx!!!