Hello Dave,

No there is not. None of the events in the programming editor will run between the time the user leaves the field and the data is taken to be formatted as a date. To use a date field, There needs to be some sort of separator between the Month, day and year. A Period, Space, Dash, or Slash. Any of those will work so Sesame knows where one part of the date stops and the next begins.

It is possible to do with a few unbound text box that appear over the date boxes, once data is entered into them they parse the data, set the date field, and set themselves to be invisible. But then you're back in the same problem if the user wants to clear the date out and type a new one into what is now the date field.

-Ray

I use the below code (Element::ImmediateChange) to prevent the "@" symbol from being used in an inventory description.   

Could you use something similar that would key on the "/" so that the user could key, for example, "04/28" and the code would trigger on the "/" and capture the "04/28" and replace it with "04/28/2010" ?

If @Right(ItemDesc, 1) = "@"
  {
     @MsgBox("the '@@' trademark symbol (above the 2) is not allowed in the ItemDesc description", "", "")
     ItemDesc = @Left(ItemDesc, @Len(ItemDesc) - 1)
  }