Subject Issuue with Template (picture) for an entryfield From Heinz Kesting <NoSpam@For.Me> Date Sat, 16 Sep 2023 10:20:05 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Hi all, for a filter form I want to restrain a date field to certain patterns, for example DD.MM.YYYY for a complete date, DD.MM. or YYYY for other needs. So I set the entryfield's picture property accordingly ("99.99.9999" for a complete date, "99.99." or "9999" respectively). That all works nicely. However, for the pattern MM.YYYY (picture "99.9999") dBase replaces the dot for the decimal point with a comma the moment some data is entered. By 'Trial and Error' I found that this only happens when the picture contains just ONE decimal point, like "99.9999". If I use "99.9999." for this, it works fine, but I don't find it correct to have a dot after the year (the fieldS value would then hold a string like "09.2023." which I dislike) Is there a way around this? Using dBase 2.8, Win10 Thanks for any ideas! Kind regards, Heinz