How to use a MaskEdit for a phone number textbox

[travisowens]

What I want to do is have a textbox control that will contains a phone number from the data enterer. What I'm envisioning is a textbox with some formatting (in grey) that displays with the x's "(xxx)xxx-xxxx" So that a user can just type 1234567890 and the numbers will automatically go into the proper spot.

 

After doing a little research it seems I need to use a MaskEdit which I grabbed the COM component that comes in Visual Studio but I don't understand how to apply the formatting although I have seen the format I need is (000)000-0000 but I can't find any tutorials or info on the subject with the exception of http://www.evermap.com/maskedit.htm

 

How do I apply this InputMask (I don't see any property in the intellisense).

[I Schobert]

You could try something like this during Form Load or even better during the Initialization of the form:

 

Sub InitMedDate()

With Me.medDate

'This box will hold date information.

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

.Text = "12/01/99"

'The user likes bold Arial font at double the default.

'Double the size of the control to fit.

.FontName = "Arial"

.FontBold = True

.FontSize *= 2

.Height *= 2

.Width *= 2

End With

End Sub

 

'This is straight from the VS.NET Help, in your case the .Mask would be

 

= "(###)###-####"

 

Hope this helps...

[travisowens]

Big thanks I Schobert....

 

I kept trying to do

mskPhone.Mask("(###)###-####");

when I just needed to do

mskPhone.Mask = "(###)###-####";

 

Now it works...

 

Does anybody know how to make the underscores not appear, or set them to white so they match the control's background?

[I Schobert]

Travis,

 

Thanks for the Thanks :)

 

I don't have an input mask in fromt of me, but as much as I remember you can specify the placeholder character in the properties (I might be wrong).

In this case, specify the spacebar char (just a space).

 

Hope it works,