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Re: VB: masked edit fields

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From: Tommy Petersson
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:53
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wangc@cpsc.UCalgary.ca (Carol Wang) writes:
: a co-worker has been having inordinate (IMHO) problems trying to use
: masked edit fields.  irregardless of the mask used, the results are
: the same. from what i gather from the documentation you should use the
: .Text property to manipulate or reference information in the field.
: using .Text to test the information in the field is not a problem, but
: trying to input into it invariably results in a "invalid property" or
: "variable not valid" type error.  so, further perusing the
: documentation turned up a .SelText property.  input with this was
: possible, but only if it was a direct string in quotes (eg "0") type
: assignment.  any assignment with, say, a string _varible_ was
: completely ineffective.  
: 
: i advised that since the project is under time pressure, personally i
: would just use regular text fields and verify the input after the user
: was done, and this has happened, but has anyone else experienced such
: problems with masked edit fields?
: 
: carol

Not theese, but most of the other possible problems. It doesn't
seem very usable.

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