Jim Byrnes wrote:
> Ed Leafe wrote:
>> On Sep 29, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>>
>>> I wanted to see how a Masked Textbox worked so I put together a
>>> quick test app in the classdesigner. Now I see that a Masked
>>> Textbox is not an option.
>>
>> Hmmm... I've never needed one, so I never wrapped it. Can you create
>> a ticket so that I don't forget to add this to the Class Designer?
>>
>>> Hand coding in dabo is still a mystery to me so if I have a panel
>>> with a vertical sizer with 3 slots in it and the first slot has a
>>> grid in it. How would I add a Masked Textbox to the middle slot?
>>
>> You can't add one to the Class Designer and interact with it; the
>> 'wrapping' I mention is the glue that lets the Class Designer
>> interact with the control.
>
>> You could do it in code, but it would be tricky, since you'd have to
>> find the panel that would be created by the empty slot, get its
>> parent, sizer position and settings, remove the panel, add the masked
>> textbox to the parent, insert it into the sizer at the same position
>> and apply the sizer settings.
>
> Actually it seems to be easier than that to do. I opened the .cdxml file
> for my test app and changed the line <dTextBox... to <dMaskedTextBox..
> After saving it and opening the CD it showed in the Properties sheet as
> a dMaskedTextBox. I was able to give it a RegId and change the border
> spacing. It respected changes I made using Edit Sizer Settings control.
> Down in the EditCode section it showed up but had no methods. I clicked
> on the New button and added the method:
>
> def afterInit(self):
> self.setProperties({"Mask":"A{2} - #{3}"})
>
> I saved it and ran the form and it worked just like I expected a
> dMaskedTextBox to work. It displayed a textbox with a - in it. To the
> left of the - it would accept only 2 uppercase letters and 3 numbers to
> the right. I printed its value and got the 2 letters and 3 numbers with
> no - . To be sure I shutdown the CD and ran it from the cmdline and it
> still worked as expected.
>
> So from this limited testing is seems you can without too much trouble
> use a dMaskedTextBox in the CD. I'm going to backup a project I am
> working on and try to replace a normal textbox with a masked one and see
> if it still works.
>Some followup. After a little more testing it seems that you can only add one dMaskedTextBox this way. Trying to add another one messes up the xxx-code.py and xxx.cdxml files. So while this has been interesting and a good learning experience, anyone who wants to use a dMaskedTextBox in the ClassDesigner needs to wait for Ed to properly wrap it. Regards, Jim _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected]
