Re: Aw: Important change in MaskBox control

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 14/04/2026 à 00:01, taitetao@xxxxxx a écrit :
> Hi all,
> thanks a lot for your work on the maskbox, Benoît!
> First of all,  the "weak separators" seem to work in cases like the 
> suggested currency box. Personally I think it looks a bit confusing to 
> have "separators" (e.g. for thousands etc.) somewhere in the box where 
> you might not even reach or need them.
> 1) The general problem that I've discovered is still not solved:
> Users that I deal with the most are mainly used to maskboxes in 
> overwrite-mode. So characters and numbers are expected to be replaced by 
> new entries. Think of time or date boxes, e.g. "00:00" or "00.00.0000".
> The suggested changes produce a behaviour like in insert-mode, i.e. 
> moving and shifting the existing numbers and characters even beyond the 
> weak separators. This makes sense in the case of just big numbers.
> For a time-maskbox, as an example, I would prefer the overwrite-mode and 
> automatic jumping over the separator to the next segment to the right 
> side. So that it is NOT necessary to use an arrow key to get to the next 
> segment and therefore speeding up typing a lot.
> In the previous master version the overwrite-mode did work, the 
> automatic jumping over the separators didn't.
> I get the impression that the "all-in-one" maskbox might be a rather 
> complex task...

Maybe I can use insert mode in right aligned parts, and use overwrite 
mode in left aligned parts.

As for automatic jumping: only weak separators are automatically jumped, 
not the normal (or strong) ones.

> 2) The maskbox freezes any application if the cursor is moved further 
> left than the left end of a segment (separated by "strong" separators) 
> using arrow left or backspace keys (...maybe due to negative values of 
> position??). That might be the same bug, that Claus reported.

Can you make a little project about that, or give me the mask you use, 
so that I am sure what you are talking about?

Thanks.

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Benoît Minisini.