Re: [dabo-users] Y2K issue with date fields and multi line text fields

Author: Ed Leafe

Posted: 2012-06-19 at 15:47:10

On Jun 19, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Dave Kelly wrote:

> The Problem is, the date field only accepts two digit dates. When I put in

> birth dates, they default to the 2000's. Therefore, my birthdate in the

> database becomes 2064 rather than 1964. How do I fix this?

I'm not sure I understand - what do you mean by "the date field only accepts two digit dates"? A dDateTextBox should default to 4-digit years.

> I have an address field which is a varchar(255). I exported this from a

> Microsoft Access database to Postgres and it has multiple lines separated by

> crlf. It displays fine in PgAdmin III on Linux Mint but in a Dabo text

> field it is all on one line with an unprintable character between what

> should be the lines. How can I make this display properly?

Hmmm... looks like something strange is going on. I just took a dEditBox, and set its Value to:

r"\n".join(['foo', 'bar', 'baz'])

I would expect this to show the three words all on separate lines, but instead it's showing "foo\nbar\nbaz". I'll have to dig into the code to see where it is escaping the newline character.

-- Ed Leafe

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