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c#winformsdatetimepicker
MadBoy
MadBoy

Reputation: 11104

Best aproach for working with Time in WinForms?

I'm trying to make a field where user will enter amount of time per day he/she spent on a project per day. It can be from 30 minutes to 8 hours. Is DateTimePicker with CustomFormat hh:mm best choice for this? Or there's better alternative for WinForms C#? Maybe TextBox or MaskedTextBox with special settings?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 377

Answers (3)

jac
jac

Reputation: 9726

If you're comfortable with it, I would build a custom control for this. Maybe a read only textbox where I display the formatted time spent, and 2 buttons, one for up, one for down that looked something like the old VB updown control. I'd suggest adding a minimum, maximum, and up / down interval properties also. This should be an easy enough control to do and it would go a long way towards simplifying the user input.

Upvotes: 2

Henk Holterman
Henk Holterman

Reputation: 273244

Although the MaskedTextBox is generally a pain, this is a situation it could be useful. With Mask="00:00". Give it a spin.

And you will have to convert to/from text to TimeSpan yourself

Upvotes: 1

LaZe
LaZe

Reputation: 712

How about a textfield with the format "7h 30m" (7 hours and 30 minutes)

Upvotes: 0

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