Change of cursor position in Text.

[manasi]

Hi All !!

I have created a customized Textbox control, by setting the default text as " / / ", (as I am setting it for date format in the form of "mm/dd/yy"). After running code, while entering the text in this customized textbox, I want the cursor position to get passed after each slash ( " / " ) , so as to enter the text further. So how to set the cursor position in the text?

It would be nice to receive responses !!

Thank you,
Manasi

 

[JohnH]

You are trying to reinvent the MaskedTextBox control. Of course you are allowed to do this. but in case you didn't know of it before, know you know such a control already exist in .Net framework.

 

[manasi]

Hi John !!
Nice to receive reply.. Thank you for the same !
But am sorry, I couldn't find any kind of MaskedTextBox control, and I have .net Framework of 2.0 version..
As I am new to VB.NET,can u please explain in details..

THanks,
Manasi

 

[JohnH]

It's listed in the Toolbox category Common controls. Thorougly documented in the .Net Framework reference, also available online at MSDN.

 

[manasi]

Hi,

I got the MaskedTextBox control....but the text is not editable at all... I have set the format and also mask for that control
Then explicitly, in code I tried to to make the text editable..but its not working at all..

 

[vis781]

You could always check this one out. Here's a link to a site where someone's gone and made one.

http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/maskedbox_control.asp

 

[JohnH]

vis781, that was a control made before .Net 2.0 provided one default.

manasi, you should read the documentation for MaskedTextBox if you don't understand it. I don't know how you make it uneditable, perhaps you set it ReadOnly? Perhaps you set wrong mask? Sounds as your Mask should be "00/00/00". Cursor position in text regarding mask literals is handled by the control automatically.