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Masked Combo SQLScott
6/24/2005 11:23:09 AM
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Sorry about the previous post. Accidentily hit the Enter key.

Anyway, does any know of a 3rd party combo that supports a mask?
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Thanks,

Re: Masked Combo SQLScott
6/24/2005 12:34:01 PM
We have considered that but did not want to recreate the wheel if it has
already been done.
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Thanks,

Scott


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Re: Masked Combo SQLScott
6/24/2005 3:18:01 PM
While i appreciate your feedback, you are completely missing the point.
Buying a 3rd party control is NOT stealing code (which was my original post
to begin with). And if someone posts their code on the web to share, it is
also NOT stealing.

And no one, not even you, can write a decent mask control in 10 minutes.
Especially one that needs to be as complex as the one we need. And if by
chance you do write it in 10 minutes I will would never use it because it
would poorly written and half heartedly tested.

And while I do appreciate your spending the time to so a search, I would
think you would have much better things to do with your time than to tell me
i'm stealing and wasting my time.

Scott


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Re: Masked Combo Crouchie1998
6/24/2005 8:23:51 PM
Scott,

There are many examples of masked textboxes/edit boxes, so, why don't you
add that functionality to your own masked combobox. Its not that difficult.

Crouchie1998
BA (HONS) MCP MCSE

Re: Masked Combo Crouchie1998
6/24/2005 10:06:12 PM
After doing a fairly detailed search on your behalf for over half hour I
came up with only a solution in C++ & not in VB.NET. As this is the case you
won't be reinventing the wheel. Also, with something so simple, why bother
asking the question in the first place? Me personally would have it written
in around 10 mins, but that's me, as I don't steal other people's code.

Go-on be a devil & write it with the few line of code it will take to do.

Crouchie1998
BA (HONS) MCP MCSE

Re: Masked Combo Crouchie1998
6/26/2005 12:00:00 AM
The few lines of code it will take to produce the control yourself instead
of looking for one would be much simplier.

Not being nasty, but if you're not up to the task of writing a simple maked
control inherited from a combobox then are you capable of writing the other
part of the application? It wouldn't take you 30 minutes to knock it up with
some half-decent functionality or a real code half that time.

Why not search for masked textboxes & then apply the same idea to a
combobox? There are hundreds of masked textboxes/editboxes on the net as
coding examples

Crouchie1998
BA (HONS) MCP MCSE

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