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Prompt characters in a MaskedTextBox

Flyte
2/6/2008 8:00:04 AM

dotnet windows forms:

The MaskedTextBox only allows a single prompt character to be
displayed upon user input. I need the ability to display different
prompt characters for certain character positions. How can I do this?
Also, due to the nature of the text being inputted, I suspect that I
will need to use a regex to validate this properly. So I'm assuming
because of these two limitations, that the MaskedTextBox isn't the way
to go.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can go about this? Use a
regular text box and validate against a reg expression? But how do I

Re: Prompt characters in a MaskedTextBox

Mr. Arnold
2/9/2008 7:41:56 AM

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You could like at a RichTextbox control. It has a lot of features that can
be used.