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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>I don't think there is any real
standard way to enter either times or time intervals - what I do is use a
straight edit box which allows several alternate formats and convert the entry
on the onexit event,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>eg I can allow times like 1:10pm to
be entered as </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>13:10</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>1:10pm</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>or time intervals can be entered as
eg for 1 hour 30 mins</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>1:30:00</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>1:30 (may
need to be smart here, you may want sometimes to interpret this as 1
min 30 sec)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>1h30</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Means you have to write your own
convert text to time routine, but can make it really smart and easy to enter
text into. Never much used mask edit as I found it too puzzling to set up
formats for cases like this, the help was not much help.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Sunbird (Thunderbird calendar add-on)
has a rather neat way to enter times - it gives a list of times through the hour
that can be expanded or shrunk to get more detail - but its not
standard.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>I think even if there was a component
I might hesitate to use it for the reasons of "Will this make it hard to upgrade
my Delphi version?"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>John</DIV></BODY></HTML>