MaskedEditBox: how to get rid of prompt characters completely

[Hugues Valois]

Hello,

I've been trying to use the MaskedEditBox to input C++ type names. This means only alphanumeric characters are allowed, as well as the '_' .

Question #1. I'm not sure how to allow the '_' at the same time as alphanumeric.

Question #2. I am not interested in seeing prompt characters at all, the thing is when I tab to that control, or double-click the control, I can see spaces that fill out the mask (if mask is of length 32, and the user entered a string of length 16, we can see the 16 remaining spaces).

Is there anything that can be done to fix both of these problems?

thanks,

hugues

[Davis Jebaraj]

Hi,

1. To allow the _ character in addition to the alphanumeric characters you can handle the MaskCustomValidate event and specify this behavior by just setting the event argument's Handled and Accepted properties. Please see the attached sample.

2. To have no PromptCharacter : Set the PromptCharacter, PassivePromptCharacter and PaddingCharacter to be the null character(In code you can set the PromptCharacterInt, PassivePromptCharacterInt and PaddingCharacterInt to be 0) Please see the attached sample for this behavior also.

Please let us know if you have any further questions.

Regards,

Davis