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Article #2325Re: VB: masked edit fields
From: Tommy Petersson
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:53
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. -- ============================================================================= Tommy Petersson tope@enea.se Enea Data AB, Sweden =============================================================================
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sunic!seunet!enea!tope From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) Subject: Re: VB: masked edit fields Message-ID: <1993Jan25.175306.29874@enea.se> Organization: Enea Data AB X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3 References: <WANGC.93Jan24225932@dl.cpsc.UCalgary.ca> Distribution: comp Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:53:06 GMT Lines: 28