GUICtrlCreateDate Code Question.

[leegold]

Hi,

I want to have it look a little like example 3 in the function documentation, but slightly customize it.

For GUICtrlCreateDate documentation example3 theres code I don't understand. So looking at example 3 theres "$DTM_SETFORMAT_ = 0x1032 ;" what is this doing? What the "0x1032" doing? Heres the function. Thanks very much:

 

; example3
Func Example3()
    Local $date, $DTM_SETFORMAT_, $style

    GUICreate("My GUI get date", 200, 200, 800, 200)
    $date = GUICtrlCreateDate("1953/04/25", 10, 10, 185, 20)

    ; to select a specific default format
    $DTM_SETFORMAT_ = 0x1032 ; $DTM_SETFORMATW
    $style = "yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss"
    GUICtrlSendMsg($date, $DTM_SETFORMAT_, 0, $style)

    GUISetState()
    While GUIGetMsg() <> $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
    WEnd

    MsgBox(0, "Time", GUICtrlRead($date))
EndFunc   ;==>Example3

[water]

According to the help file this is the message type being sent to the control: "type of message to be send to the control as defined in the Windows control documentation."

[zaNergal]

Look in the file includesDateTimeConstants.au3 for a list of messages that can be passed to the DateTimePicker.

Setting the Date Format in ASCII would be 0x1005, and setting the date in Unicode 0x1032 (0x1000 + 50)

Global Const $DTM_FIRST = 0x1000
Global Const $DTM_SETFORMAT = $DTM_FIRST + 5
Global Const $DTM_SETFORMATW = $DTM_FIRST + 50 ; [Unicode]

Other messages you can send include setting the color, setting the font and so forth.

 

[leegold]

Many Thanks.