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We're currently running Profound UI version 5.13.0. I'm updating to the latest version on Sunday.

I've got an screen I need the user to type times into. Ideally I'd be able to use a time formatted field and have a mask which enforces an input like "HH.MM.SS" (or H.i.s) , where the periods are immutable. I am currently considering making it a dropdown because I can't find any other way to do this. Is there a way to accomplish this, short of the dropdown? I guess I could also split it up into three fields and do validation at run time but that seems more awkward than the dropdown.

Thanks.

Is this for mobile, or for running on a PC? The reason I ask is that mobile devices often have a nice time-picker available.

If there are a small number of values, then a dropdown would make sense. If you plan to allow every single possible time, I don't think a dropdown would work well. (If you allow every possible value for hours, minutes and seconds, thats 86400 values to choose from in your dropdown.) A better choice in that case would be 3 different dropdowns, one for hours, one for minutes, one for seconds.

Another good way to do it on PC is to use 3 spinner widgets. Use the client-side validation properties to restrict them to the allowed values. (That does not work well on mobile, however.)

Hey Scott,

Exclusively PC, for now. Spinner widgets are a way less silly way to do it and that's what I'm going with.

Thanks.