Declaring COM classes

[sethindeed]

Hey it's me again ;)

I am trying to declare a class that acts as a maskededit control.

Here is what I have done so far :

 

Public Class MyMaskedEdit

 

Inherits MSMask.MaskEdClass

 

End Class

 

Doing so, I am unable to access most of the maskededit properties (Left.Top, BackColor ... ). When declaring classes for common controls, I am using the following inheritance structure :

 

Inherits System.Windows.Forms.TextBox

 

...but I just can't find the maskededit control in the forms collection. Anybody has experienced the same kind of problems before ?

 

thx

[divil]

The Masked Edit control is not a .NET component. You can't inherit from it.

[sethindeed]

OK then is there a way to build an array of masked edit controls that I will be able to load dynamically on one of my forms ( because control arrays are gone for good ) ?

Are you sure I can't build a class for masked edit controls or any added COM ressources ?

And are you sure an added COM can't inherits from something else than Windows.Forms ?

I have some difficulties to understand this limitation....