Hi Sami, This is a response to an old post. As you can see, I am WAY behind in reading the posts. I'm sure you already have a work-around for the problem but here is the code that I use in the exit EEP of telephone fields. It eliminates the edit problem that you described. I use a mask of "999-999-999;1;_".
SET VAR vphone_no_val TEXT = NULL GETPROPERTY idHOMETELE TEXTVALUE 'vPHONE_NO_VAL' IF vphone_no_val = '000-000-0000' OR vphone_no_val = ' - -' THEN PROPERTY idHOMETELE textvalue '' ENDIF RETURN John -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sami Aaron Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:50 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Format Mask With a Format Mask for a phone number of "000-000-0000;1;_" in a dbEdit on a form, it all seems to work just fine except when the user wants to delete an existing value from the field and leave it blank. After hitting the "DEL" key or pressing the back-space, the cursor will not exit the field. If the field was originally blank, then the cursor can TAB or ENTER through the field with no problem, leaving it blank; it's just when there is already a value that it won't allow the delete. Is there some other setting or special keystroke to do this? Thanks, Sami ____________________________ Sami Aaron Software Management Specialists 913-915-1971 [email protected] ? Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail --- RBASE-L =======================3D=======================3 D= TO POST A MESSAGE TO ALL MEMBERS: Send a plain text email to [email protected] (Don't use any of these words as your Subject: INTRO, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, SEARCH, REMOVE, SUSPEND, RESUME, DIGEST, RESEND, HELP) =======================3D=======================3 D= TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: INTRO =======================3D=======================3 D= TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: UNSUBSCRIBE =======================3D=======================3 D= TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: SEARCH-n (where n is the number of days). In the message body, place any text to search for. =======================3D=======================3 D=
