Re: Important change in MaskBox control

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 14/04/2026 à 22:38, Claus Dietrich a écrit :
> 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

Is it better with the last commit? Now 'Backspace' always ignore 
separators, whether they are weak or strong.

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Benoît Minisini.