Re: Important change in MaskBox control

[Claus Dietrich <claus.dietrich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Benoît

Just for the record ...

The MaskBox had indeed a very bad bug which occurred when using the 
back-step key (i.e. to correct an entry). I fixed it by making this 
modification:

    While iPos >= 0
      If $aMask[iPos] Then Break
      Dec iPos                                              'Added by 
Claus Dietrich because separators are to be passed over
      Dec iPos
    Wend

and use this modified user control as source code in a project since 
years. It works perfectly - at least for the entry of a period of time 
in the format mm:ss.

If I find a slot during my garden work I will test the new MaskBox in my 
project and come back.

Best regards

Claus


Am 12.04.26 um 23:37 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> Hi,
>
> The MaskBox control was not reliable, so I rewrote its management code 
> in the master branch.
>
> Tell me if it is better now than before.
>
> I hope there will not be too many regressions.
>
> I added a new syntax, normally backward-compatible, that I named 
> "weak" separator. It's a separator that does not block character 
> insertion or deletion, as if it was not there. Think about the 
> thousand separators of a big number.
>
> To add a weak separator, put it into square brackets in the mask.
>
> For example, for typing a currency:
>
> $##<[,]###<[,]##0<!.00
>
> There is still some bugs I'm still working on, but I wanted this code 
> to be tested as soon as possible by those who use the MaskBox control 
> a lot (not me!).
>
> If this new behaviour cannot be backward-compatible, I will add some 
> flag to keep the old MaskBox behaviour or use the new one, so that you 
> don't have to adapt your project. And this flag may also be simply 
> based on the version of the interpreter running the project.
>
> Just tell me.