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- From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
- Subject: Re: VB: masked edit fields
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.175306.29874@enea.se>
- Organization: Enea Data AB
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:53:06 GMT
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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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