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- From: wangc@cpsc.UCalgary.ca (Carol Wang)
- Subject: VB: masked edit fields
- Message-ID: <WANGC.93Jan24225932@dl.cpsc.UCalgary.ca>
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- Organization: The University of Calgary
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:59:32 GMT
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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
-