Re: Important change in MaskBox control

[Claus Dietrich <claus.dietrich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Florian

Am 14.04.26 um 17:35 schrieb Florian Brunke:
>     Users that came previously from MS Office applications, for
>     instance, are used to maskboxes where every single position in the
>     predefined mask is just overwritten by typing characters or
>     digits. This happens in "forward" direction. Using backspace,
>     characters are deleted and replaced by the placeholders and the
>     cursor is moved left.
>
>     Either way the separators are just ignored as if they weren't
>     there. That is the fastest way to insert data in specified
>     maskboxes that I can think of, as it is not necessary to click or
>     use arrow keys. 
To refresh my memory and for comparison I just tried the Microsoft 
MaskEdBox of Visual Basic 6 (where I came from long time ago). As 
expected and as you say - it is behaving as if the separator wasn't 
there, which is also true when using the backspace key. I fully agree 
with you that this is the fastes way to operate such a control. But this 
is not what the Gambas MaskBox is doing when using the backspace key. It 
makes a stop-over just left from the separator. So I have to press the 
backspace twice to delete the next left digit when it passes the 
separator. This is the reason I modified the MaskBox and propose to 
adopt my change.

I hope that this helps to get a common view on this issue and a common 
position.

Best regards, Claus