Popup Calendar

The popup calendar is a popular way to provide date/time choosing controls on a window. Similar to the Calendar component, but takes up much less screen real estate. Most commonly used by including this component's Date property in dynamic SQL Query Bindings.

Appearance

Font

Font of text of this component

Scripting name	font
Data type	Font

Foreground Color

The foreground color of the component.

Scripting name	foreground
Data type	Color

Background Color

The background color of the component.

Scripting name	background
Data type	Color

Today Foreground

Foreground color for the today indicator.

Scripting name	todayForeground
Data type	Color

Today Background

Background color for the today indicator.

Scripting name	todayBackground
Data type	Color

Weekend Foreground

Foreground color for the weekend indicators.

Scripting name	weekendForeground
Data type	Color

Weekend Background

Background color for the weekend indicators.

Scripting name	weekendBackground
Data type	Color

Selected Border

The border for the selected day indicator.

Scripting name	selectedBorder
Data type	Border

Title Background

The background of the title bar

Scripting name	titleBackground
Data type	Color

Antialias

Draw with antialias on? Makes text smoother

Scripting name	antialias
Data type	boolean
Flags	expert

Calendar Background

The background color for the popup calendar

Scripting name	calendarBackground
Data type	Color

Styles

Contains the component's styles

Scripting name	styles
Data type	Dataset
Flags	bindable \| expert

Behavior

Time Style

Select how this calendar should treat the time portion of the date.

Scripting name

timeStyle

Data type

int

Values

0	User Selectable
1	Start of Day
2	End of Day

Show Navigation

Turn this off if you don't want to show the year and month navigation buttons.

Scripting name	showNavigation
Data type	boolean

Show OK Button

Turn this off if you don't want to show the OK button. The latched date and the immediate date will be equivalent.

Scripting name	showOkButton
Data type	boolean

Show Time

Turn this off if you don't want to show the time panel.

Scripting name	showTime
Data type	boolean

Time Display Format

The format for displaying time in the panel

Scripting name

timeDisplayFormat

Data type

int

Values

0	12 Hour
1	24 Hour

Format String

The date formatting pattern used to display this date.

Scripting name	format
Data type	String

Common

Name

The name of this component.

Scripting name	name
Data type	String
Flags	bindable

Enabled

If disabled, a component cannot be used.

Scripting name	componentEnabled
Data type	boolean

Visible

If disabled, the component will be hidden.

Scripting name	visible
Data type	boolean
Flags	bindable

Border

The border surrounding this component. NOTE that the border is unaffected by rotation.

Scripting name	border
Data type	Border

Mouseover Text

The text that is displayed in the tooltip which pops up on mouseover of this component.

Scripting name	toolTipText
Data type	String

Cursor

The mouse cursor to use when hovering over this component.

Scripting name

cursorCode

Data type

int

Values

0	Default
1	Crosshair
2	Text
3	Wait
12	Hand
13	Move
4	SW Resize
5	SE Resize
6	NW Resize
7	NE Resize
8	N Resize
9	S Resize
10	W Resize
11	E Resize

Data

Date

The date that this component represents

Scripting name	date
Data type	Date
Flags	bindable

Formatted Date

The date property, as formatted by the format string.

Scripting name	formattedDate
Data type	String
Flags	bindable \| read-only

Text

The displayed text of the date (depends on the format string).

Scripting name	text
Data type	String
Flags	bindable \| read-only \| expert

Data Quality

The data quality code for any tag bindings on this component.

Scripting name	dataQuality
Data type	int
Flags	bindable \| expert

The following event sets are fired by this component. See Component Event Handlers to learn more.