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EZGUI 5.0 Professional => EZGUI 5 support forum => Topic started by: Brian Reynolds on January 17, 2022, 12:51:12 am
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I am having difficulty handling a Mask with the EZ_Text control.
I have tested the following:
EZ_Text %FORM1_BIRTH, 22, 11, 14, 1.75, "", "EST{##-##-####}"
appears okay when the date "25-05-1904" is loaded from a file but doesn't allow keyboard input.
The EZ_Text line is Subclassed.
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Change the Mask to:
{99-99-9999}
The # character may confuse the Masked Edit control since that normally is used for calculator mode masks.
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The folling line produces exactly the same result as my earlier example.
Data looks good when loaded from a file, or off a ListView, but I can't input new daya from the keyboard
EZ_Text %FORM1_BIRTH, 22, 12.25, 11.75, 1.75, "", "EFT{99-99-9999}"
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Make sure that the data loaded into control always matches the mask (in position and length).
A Masked Edit control should never have the initial value set to a null string ("") !
The control should always have the exact number of characters in it as the mask does at all times, otherwise it messes up the control.
So rather than:
EZ_Text %FORM1_BIRTH, 22, 12.25, 11.75, 1.75, "", "EFT{99-99-9999}"
You should have something like:
EZ_Text %FORM1_BIRTH, 22, 12.25, 11.75, 1.75, "01-01-2000", "EFT{99-99-9999}"
There has to be a default value in the control.
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If you want to define the current date as the default then set the option (in designer) to generate the %EZ_Loading event. Then in the %EZ_Loading event you can swap in a string for the current date by using the EZ_SetLoadStr command.
This way the control when first created would have the current date and then the user can change that to a different date manually.