Hi, I'm currently working on the MaskEdit unit, which is ATM not totally Delphi compatible ;) Since I only have an ancient Delphi (D3) (on ancient hardware, so I cannnot even run newer versions) I have some questions on the behaviour of MaskEdit in current delphi versions.
Question 1: If I set the text of a MaskEdit to some value that does not match the mask (e.g. EditMask = '0000' and then MaskEdit.Text := 'ABCD'), in D3 no exception is raised and the text in the control is set. Is this still the case in current Delphi's? (In Lazarus ATM an Exception is raised if you try to do that) Question 2: What does an exclamationmark (!) in a mask actually do. The helptext says it removes leading spaces from the data (what data?) and if no ! is in the mask it removes trailing spaces. In real live I see no effect on either MaskEdit.Text or MaskEdit.EditText at all. Question 3: In the EditMask you can specify if the mask will be saved as pasrt of the data (again: what data?). For instance, if your EditMask is '000;0;_' then maskdata is not saved (the first 0 after the colon ( ; ) sets this value). I cannot really figure out what it does. I see noe effect n Text or EditText at all. Regarding questions 2 and 3: I could, of course, try and understand the VCL code, but that would probably increase the risk of writing code that is almost identical to the copyrighted VCL code. Thanks for now. Bart _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
