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A free, open-source genealogy application to track, organize, and share your family history.
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Fix Date validation in Experimental branch #82

Open fire-eggs opened 7 years ago

fire-eggs commented 7 years ago

notonyournelly[CodePlex]
Date parsing/validation in textboxes is currently malfunctioning in the Experimental branch.

This can be seen in the Details pane, for (e.g.) birth and death dates.

As soon as the user starts typing an invalid date, the text changes to quot01/01/0001quot. The textbox is correctly marked in red.

The text should not change, merely have the textbox go red. I have the theory of date validation correct but I've done something wrong.

The intent in the Experimental branch is to use the date parsing support from GEDCOM.Net. This ideally will provide us with better/more flexible date input, such as:

quotABT 1900quot quotAFT 1900quot quotBEF 1900quot quot1900quot quotMay 1900quot

The current Family.Show date parsing is limited to full day/month/year dates.

fire-eggs commented 7 years ago

GenJerDan[CodePlex]
Date validation doesn't work at all...unless you ignore the hint.

It refuses to let me put my birth date it (27/01/1957)

It says it's an invalid date. Then decided I was born in 2012 for some reason, and wouldn't let me change it.

But it will accept a wrongly formatted (MM/DD/YYYY) date if I write it in Notepad, the copy/paste it.