geting the value from an Object

JAdkins · June 28th, 2007, 07:30 PM

I want to add a calanar object to my page so that the user can select a date. I did this witht he <Object> Tag and the MS datepicker control my question is how do I get the value from the control when I post the page the Object code is as follows.. Any help would be greatly appricated. so far I have tried to assign the Dtpicker1.value to a text box as a test and i get an error stating this is an invalid use of the property.

<OBJECT id=DTPicker1 height=25 width=100 classid=CLSID:20DD1B9E-87C4-11D1-8BE3-0000F8754DA1 VIEWASTEXT NAME="Cal">
    <PARAM NAME="_ExtentX" VALUE="2646">
    <PARAM NAME="_ExtentY" VALUE="1349">
    <PARAM NAME="_Version" VALUE="393216">
    <PARAM NAME="MousePointer" VALUE="0">
    <PARAM NAME="Enabled" VALUE="1">
    <PARAM NAME="OLEDropMode" VALUE="0">
    <PARAM NAME="CalendarBackColor" VALUE="-2147483643">
    <PARAM NAME="CalendarForeColor" VALUE="-2147483630">
    <PARAM NAME="CalendarTitleBackColor" VALUE="-2147483633">
    <PARAM NAME="CalendarTitleForeColor" VALUE="-2147483630">
    <PARAM NAME="CalendarTrailingForeColor" VALUE="-2147483631">
    <PARAM NAME="CheckBox" VALUE="0">
    <PARAM NAME="CustomFormat" VALUE="">
    <PARAM NAME="DateIsNull" VALUE="0">
    <PARAM NAME="Format" VALUE="662831105">
    <PARAM NAME="UpDown" VALUE="0">
    <PARAM NAME="CurrentDate" VALUE="39261">
    <PARAM NAME="MaxDate" VALUE="2958465">
    <PARAM NAME="MinDate" VALUE=date>
    </OBJECT>

misskaos · June 29th, 2007, 10:59 AM

OK.. Im not familiar with your method.. however there is a free web calendar u can download..
http://www.fullrevolution.com/23y543...endar_FREE.zip

in this calendar.zip file there is a folder called "calendar" and inside calendar there is a folder called "datepicker". The datepicker folder holds the popcalendar which is a js file (popcalendar.js).. copy the entire datepicker folder to where ever you are hosting your page. (put it in the root directory).

To use the calendar.. simply locate where you want the calendar to go (by an input box)...

From an ASP page:
<%
response.write "<script language=""javascript"" src=""datepicker/popcalendar.js""></script>"
%>
<html>
<tr>
<table>
<td width="550" colspan = "11">
<input type="text" name="InputBoxName" value = "" readonly="readonly" size = "30">
<%
response.write "<IMG SRC='datepicker/datepicker.gif' VALUE=PICK onClick=""popUpCalendar(this, InputBoxName, 'mm/dd/yyyy')"">"
%>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</html>

the only thing else you MAY need to change is the image directory in the popcalendar.js file itself.
If your images do not popup correctly.. open the .js file, look around line 28 for "var imgDir = 'calendar/datepicker/'; this will need to be changed to 'datepicker/datepicker/' since u are removing the datepicker folder from the calendar folder.

Hope that's not too complicated sounding. Its really just a matter of downloading.. copying the folder.. and adding those 2 or 3 lines of code to your coding.

T.B.
misskaos99@yahoo.com