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So I like the idea of using the visual forms designer, from some of the sample applications, it looks like I’m going to be able to get the fine-grained control I want. However, I’ve run into a slightly different problem now. With the old dialog, I was picking up date+times in a human-readable format, and using that for iTimePeriodBegin and iTimePeriodEnd.
Now that I’m using the visual forms designer, I get errors about an OLE something and not a valid long number. Doing an export of the form to a file shows that the .Date data needs to be in the form of 39386.4694906366 (instead of 10/31/2007 11:54:00)
Sure enough, plugging that real number into iTimePeriodBegin and iTimePeriodEnd lets the dialog display.
What is the formula for computing this date+time number?
-Or-
Can I make the object DatePicker: TDateTimePicker be happy with a human readable date?
Thanks!