VB: masked edit fields

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2 total messages Started by Carol Wang Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:59

#2309

Author: Carol Wang
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:59

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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

Re: VB: masked edit fields

#2325

Author: 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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 Tommy Petersson              tope@enea.se              Enea Data AB, Sweden
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