DateEditor

Class: TEgFireGrid

property DateEditor: TEgFireGridDateEditor default gdeText;

What edits the date and date-time cells:

Value Editor
gdeText (default) The field’s text in an edit box, in the system’s date format, as the VCL grid does.
gdePicker A date picker (FireMonkey’s TDateEdit); a date-time cell also gets a text box for the time beside it.

It applies to every column with no DateEditor of its own. Only fields the dataset reports as a date or a date-time are concerned: a time field, or a SQL time stamp, is always edited as text. On a phone the picker is usually the better choice, since typing a date on a virtual keyboard is slow.

With the picker, Del or Backspace makes the value null (unless the column is Required).

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