Hi,

does anyone know what's the easiest way to add an editmask to a DBEdit
in Delphi 1.0?  Does this involve making a new component?

Thanks for any advice,

Dan

Good luck!

Jasper

PS: please take into consideration
- when replying, I just think I know;
- when asking, be sure that I don't.

you can assign an edit mask to the TField component associated with the
DBEdit.  Use the Object Inspector to examine the TField in question and find
the 'EditMask' property.

In article <31EA698D.2...@connix.com>

In article <4sh922$...@news.cc.utah.edu>,
   lawre...@biology.utah.edu (Jeffrey Lawrence) wrote:

We use this for doing things like presenting percentages in decimal format
with a % sign, while maintaining the underlying data in fractional form. It
works especially well if you want to allow the user to enter data
in several different ways, which you will decode as it happens.

 I find edit masks extremely poorly suited to most realistic data-entry
scenarios. For example, a US-style zip code mask fails for Canadian postal
codes, and the mask won't support both. North American phone numbers can be
force-fit, but then not overseas numbers. Etc. Also, they are ugly (IMHO).

--
Brad Aisa <ba...@tor.hookup.net>  http://www.hookup.net/~baisa/

"The highest responsibility of philosophers is to serve as the
guardians and integrators of human knowledge."   -- Ayn Rand

Hi There,

With regard to the general discusiion on EditMasks, I've got a form with
a number of data fields on it. Wanting to be smart I assigned a date
edit mask to each field and set the save mask with data flag.

What happens now is that if the user tabs across a date field, on entry
the mask is displayed and on exit Delphi attempts to write the empty
mask to the underlying datafield resulting in a database error since it
is not a valid date.

Working around this is a real pig. Any comments?
--
Sol Barron

Ideas, cheapest to most expensive -

1. Get rid of the dbedit and put a standard tedit in its place. Trap
OnKeyPress to allow only entry of digits and slashes. In the OnExit
event call a routine which does a strtodate on the text in the tedit and  
trap the exception if invalid and put up a messagedlg to alert the user.
Finally in the BeforePost event of your dataset do a
tableField.asdatetime:=strtodate(tedit.text). Long winded but it works a
treat.

2. Get a data-aware calendar-dbedit and prevent the user typing in the
exit part, forcing him to get the date from the calendar.

3. Get InfoPower 2.0 which has a dbedit which has properly working
masks.

Nick Spurrier (MoDESoft, UK)

In article <EQRy7CAcG89xE...@barron.demon.co.uk>,
   Sol Barron <s...@barron.demon.co.uk> wrote:

If Delphi came with documentation, this would have been clearly explained.

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"The highest responsibility of philosophers is to serve as the
guardians and integrators of human knowledge."   -- Ayn Rand

TIA
keith