 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
.NET Forum / Windows Forms / WinForm Controls / December 2007MaskedTextBox and currency?
Either I don't know how to use it particularly well (entirely possible), or the MaskedTextBox included with VS2005 (and VS2008) really sucks!!! All I need is a simple control to allow me to enter decimal or currency values. I would prefer behavior that looks a lot more like a standard text box, rather than showing the mask or dictating the number of digits. I'd like it to be aware of the decimal functionality and handle it properly (e.g. I want to be able to type 1.23 regardlesss of how long the entry can be). Is there a good open-source alternative out there? What are people using? I found nothing on SourceForge. I found a few on CodeProject, but those tend not to be maintained over time, and I don't think I've found the ideal one yet. This seems like such a simple and fundamental control, but I haven't had much luck finding a good one. I thought about writing it myself, but 1) I simply don't have the time, and 2) I can't imagine there isn't already a good one out there! Any thoughts or opinions? Thanks! Brad. Hi Brad, I understand your concern. The MaskedTextBox class is an enhanced TextBox control that supports a declarative syntax for accepting or rejecting user input. It has some restrictions, e.g. the user could only input specified length of text and in specified mask into a MaskedTextBox. So the MaskedTextBox is not appropriate to your scenario. I suggest that you use a TextBox control instead and validate wether the text the user inputs in the TextBox is valid or not using a proper regular expression. For a complete sample on how to do this, please refer to the following technical article: 'Adding Regular Expression Validation' http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms996428.aspx Hope this helps. If you have any question, please feel free to let me know. Sincerely, Linda Liu Microsoft Online Community Support ================================================== Get notification to my posts through email? Please refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/managednewsgroups/default.aspx#notif ications. Note: The MSDN Managed Newsgroup support offering is for non-urgent issues where an initial response from the community or a Microsoft Support Engineer within 1 business day is acceptable. Please note that each follow up response may take approximately 2 business days as the support professional working with you may need further investigation to reach the most efficient resolution. The offering is not appropriate for situations that require urgent, real-time or phone-based interactions or complex project analysis and dump analysis issues. Issues of this nature are best handled working with a dedicated Microsoft Support Engineer by contacting Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) at http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/support/default.aspx. ================================================== This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Hi Brad, How about the problem now? If you have any question, please feel free to let me know. Thank you for using our MSDN Managed Newsgroup Support Service! Sincerely, Linda Liu Microsoft Online Community Support I was still hoping for some community feedback (e.g. what other people are using). I assume, since I'm guessing this is such a common problem, that there must be some good alternatives out there rather than each person writing his/her own version. Though I'm disappointed that MS doesn't have something better for this, it's not something I expect MS to fix at this point. Brad. >Hi Brad, > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >Linda Liu >Microsoft Online Community Support After trying MaskedTextbox and finding it very inadequate for numbers, I wrote my own subclass of Textbox to allow me to limit the number of digits before and after the decimal point. Since it wasn't hard to do I didn't bother trying to find an existing non-MS solution, so I don't know if there is anything available or not. >I was still hoping for some community feedback (e.g. what other people >are using). I assume, since I'm guessing this is such a common [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >>Linda Liu >>Microsoft Online Community Support Hi Brad, Thank you for your reply! You may go to the Microsoft Connect web site to make a suggestion on this issue: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Feedback Thank you for your support and contribution to Microsoft! Sincerely, Linda Liu Microsoft Online Community Support There are already at least two feedback items on this topic. They were raised when VS2005 was in beta, and it appears they simply get dismissed. I guess there just isn't enough community support for this kind of a thing. :-( Brad. >Hi Brad, > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >Linda Liu >Microsoft Online Community Support Hi Brad, Well, I will make a suggestion for you on this issue in our internal discussion group. Hope that would draw our product team's attention. Sincerely, Linda Liu Microsoft Online Community Support Hi Brad, Sorry for my delayed reply! Our product team replied as follows: We wrote a full-featured sample DecimalTextBox control that can be installed from here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/8/7/087e6a47-7306-4a5c-ad97-d1ffd58 d712e/DecimalTextBox.msi Hope this is what you want. Sincerely, Linda Liu Microsoft Online Community Support Thanks a lot! I think I'll use that for now, but I still think it's something MS should include with the product. Brad. >Hi Brad, > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >Linda Liu >Microsoft Online Community Support > Either I don't know how to use it particularly well (entirely > possible), or the MaskedTextBox included with VS2005 (and VS2008) [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Any thoughts or opinions? Why don't you just use a function that returns true or false to check if numbers and the period are being entered, which can be done on the Textbox Keypress event. e.handle = cknumberorperiod(e.key); //or something like that. You have to account for the backspace key in the function. The fact that this is reasonably easy to do misses the point. Decimal and currency entry is so common, I can't believe there is no control included for it! Brad. >> Either I don't know how to use it particularly well (entirely >> possible), or the MaskedTextBox included with VS2005 (and VS2008) [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > >You have to account for the backspace key in the function. > The fact that this is reasonably easy to do misses the point. Decimal > and currency entry is so common, I can't believe there is no control > included for it! Why beat yourself up about it? You should find an alternate path and let the good times roll. :) Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
|
Reply to this Message
|
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.