gardner@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (11/22/90)
I am designing an accounting package which uses an edit control in a dialog box to get phone numbers, ssn numbers, dates, etc. I have been scanning through my manuals and all the magazines I could find to see how WINDOWS could verify that the user has entered the data in a correct format. What I would like to have is an edit control with a visible "mask" which the user just fills in... i.e. +-------------------------------+ | | | +--------------+ | | PHONE: |( ) - | | | +--------------+ | | | +-------------------------------+ where the box enclosing the phone number is an edit control. Are there some generic formatting characters that allow input verification using edit controls? Do I have to resort to writing my own custom control class to do input verification and formatting? I'd appreciate any help! Thanks, Mike Gardner Summit Software Engineering