[RBG7-L] - Re: Format masks on forms

[David M. Blocker]

Doug   Thanks for this reply - I'll send this to RBTI as a bug   David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261 ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Hamilton To: RBG7-L Mailing List Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 7:03 PM Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Format masks on forms David - lot's of e-ms from you over the weekend.  Did you get to take a New Year's break?  :) re: Format mask skipping:  I had the same problem formatting a 12 char text phone # column.  If I made the column 13 characters, the formatting worked and didn't skip to the next field upon typing the 1st char. The way I found that out was to test the mask in another field, thinking that maybe the phone column or located feild was corrupted somehow.  I copied the format mask into a another 16 character text field and it  didn't skip when the 1st character was typed.  I then expanded the phone column from 12 to 14 (one extra extra char for good luck and in case we go from 3 to 4 digit exchanges or a/c's) and the phone # formatting worked with skipping. Happy New Year, Doug oh yea, I think it should be reported. David M. Blocker wrote: Correction - this behavior occurs only when a 0 is NOT used in the second field: Eg, the mask AA;0;_ for custState in CustomerEnter form works fine on enter or edit. but AA;1;_ does not work with enter - typing any character jumps you to the next field. David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261 ----- Original Message ----- From: "David M. Blocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <rbg7-l@rbase.com> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 8:58 PM Subject: [RBG7-L] - Format masks on forms Format masks on forms appear to work ONLY with the EDIT command. See the form FormatMask in CONCOMP. If you EDIT USING Formatmask, you can edit correctly, and only numbers are allowed. If you ENTER FormatMask, you get a dark blue background in the field and if you type any character, the cursor jumps to the next field. Is this intentional or a bug? (Build 79) David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261