Re: Aw: Re: Important change in MaskBox control

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 16/04/2026 à 15:39, Benoît Minisini a écrit :
> Le 16/04/2026 à 15:17, Florian Brunke a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > okay I will clarify this by something you can all test:
> > 1- Use the following mask definition in a MaskBox: "!00:00"
> > 2- now enter "12:34" into the MaskBox; you will see, every position 
> > will be OVERWRITTEN
> > 3- next, put the cursor to the most leftposition again and try typing 
> > in new digits; you will see nothing happens, because the positions are 
> > not overwritten again.
> > 4- now delete the whole MaskBox and insert: "11:05"
> > 5- put the cursor just right of the ":" separator
> > 6- type "12"; you see that theyou can insert the "1" by OVERWRITING 
> > but not the "2" (confronted by anything but "0", overwriting is blocked)
> > 7- the same happens, resp. again nothing happens, if you put the 
> > cursor in the most left position
> > 8- finally something special to demonstrate: delete the MaskBox 
> > contents again and insert "10:20"
> > 9- now you will see that you can insert and OVERWRITE the segments 
> > before and after the ":" separator. So, apparently, if the right 
> > position of the segment is a "0", overwriting works.
> > In this kind of mask I think digits should generally be overwritten in 
> > any position.
> > Best regards,
> > Florian
>
> My bad, it was just a bug that prevented any insertion in a full slot 
> between two separators. It does make sense only in insertion mode.
>
> It's fixed in master.

Don't forget to tell me when everything is ok for both of you.

I don't these changes will be backported to the stable version, because 
they are too intrusive.

Regards,

--
Benoît Minisini.