Hello all,
Here is a little question.
I'd like to store a time in a field like this "2mn. 13sec." but I like the user just to type "2:13". Got an idea?
I'd like it to be also entered in milliseconds "2:13:154".

I tried to solve this with input masks, but without any sufficient answers.

Thank you

Actually what you're attempting to store here, and what your users are entering, are simple string values, not time values as time values are understood by Access (8-byte floating point numbers).

You would need to write a little string parsing routine to locate the semi-colon in your string (e.g., Instr (1, "2:13", ":")), then parse off the characters strings to the right and left of the semi-colon, and append "mn." and "sec." respectively to the two sub-strings.

If I get some time I'll give it a whirl.

Bob

Also, if "2mn. 13sec." represents some sort of elasped time value, a better design might be to store an actual staring time value and ending time value in two Date/Time datatype fields (which would give you actual time values to work with), then calculate the elapsed time value in a query and format the time values there (though the custom format would still require treating the time value as a string in code somewhere so you could append the custom "mn." and "sec."
 suffix strings).

Bob

Try parsing this with Split() instead of colon, like this:

'==========
If IsNull(Me.tbxYourTextBox) Then
   stTime = "00:00:000"
   Else: stTime = Me.tbxYourTextBox
End If

TimeArray = Split(stTime, ":")
   stMin = TimeArray(0)
   stSec = TimeArray(1)
   stMls = TimeArray(2)
stStoredValue = stMin & "mn. " & stSec & "sec. " & stMls & "mls."
'==========

   You may need to add error handling for missed milliseconds, etc.

HTH.



mmcdonal