Clear contents of a masked edit box

[CSharpLearner]

Hi Gurus,

I had posted this a few days ago....

How do I clear the contents of a masked edit box (values that users have entered)?

Eg: When I click button "Reset", I need to clear out all text entered in the masked edit box and set the original mask to the box...

Help desperately needed....

Thanks in advance,

CSharpLearner

[Andy Tacker]

did you try simply setting the mask over again instead of reset?

if it is a custom text box control, you should have defined a function to clear input data.

if it is ordinary text box, you know the mask you are setting, simply remove whatever is unwanted.

[CSharpLearner]

Hi Andy,

I tried MaskedEdBox.Reset()
and MaskedEdBox.Mask = ##/##/####

Both did not work. I have added a AxMaskEd box and it is not a textbox customized to be a masked edit box.

The .CliPText and .FormattedText properties are not available for setting at runtime....

Can you help me further?

[otaviomacedo]

Hi, CSharpLearner,

Try to use quotation marks, such as:

MaskedEdBox.Mask = "##/##/####"

[CSharpLearner]

Hi all,

Yes, tried with quote marks as suggested, ie MaskedEdBox.Mask = "##/##/####" , but it does not work too!

Need some help desperately here....

Thanks in advance,

CSharpLearner

[rlaffolter]

ChipLearner:

Kind of puzzling.
The book I have says to do this:

mskControlName.Mask = ""
mskControlName.Text = ""
mskControlName.Mask = "##/##/####"

I tried it and it did NOT work.

Hope you find your answer if you haven't yet.

RA

[chrisw99]

I figure that you found a solution already since it has been a couple of months since your last post. I wanted to post the solution anyways as other people will probably stumble onto this thread looking for an answer.

MaskEdit1.mask = ""
MaskEdit1.Ctltext = ""
MaskEdit1.mask = "##/##/####" 'Your original mask property

Happy coding!