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[Nemroth]

I know I already asked for such a control in the GUI, but I think always it can be a good thing.

As it is planned ot have a "light" support of Regex, perhaps it can be "merged" with an edit control to give a masked edit control, an edit control with a mask, with the help of the regex support in AHK.

For example, with a mask like "#0.00", the user have the ability to enter a number, with any number of digits (# is the equivalent of *, but only for numbers, not for letters too like *, witch would be for numbers & letters (in my mind...)), but at least one digit followed by a decimal point and by two digits (0.00)

With a mask like "00/00/0000", the user would be able to enter only a date , in the format "dd/mm/yyyy" or "mm/dd/yyyy", and with this fixed place format, (only one digit from 0 to 9 possible in one place), the user woud not to have to type the slashes. I know this sort of things can be done by the way of a SetTimer comand, like in this - old - post, but I think that if it was an inbuilt option, it would be better....

Of course, the use of the range option ([01-12] for the month number, for example) would be possible.

Am I overdemanding ?

[Chris]

With a mask like "00/00/0000", the user would be able to enter only a date , in the format "dd/mm/yyyy" or "mm/dd/yyyy",

A date-picker control is planned. It's probably not hard to implement so probably should have been done earlier.

an edit control with a mask, with the help of the regex support in AHK.

I know this sort of things can be done by the way of a SetTimer comand, like in this - old - post, but I think that if it was an inbuilt option, it would be better....

The current idea for RegEx is to start off with support for wildcards (* and ?) only. I know this isn't really RegEx, but it seems like it would be a big benefit.

It would be nice to have formats enforced as you describe, though to be honest, it's hard to justify making it a higher priority than something like SysListControl32 (which is a control much like a spreadsheet). And even SysListControl32 is probably a couple months away at this rate.

One thing that might help in the future is the ability to assign a g-label to an Edit control. This would avoid the need for SetTimer and also improve performance. If you think this would help you, I can try to give this a higher priority.

In any case, I've made a copy of your post for use when the time comes for this idea is revisited. Thanks.

[Nemroth]

Thanks for your answer, Chris.

I know that the date-picker control is planned and I think it can be very usefull. My wish of a maked edit control is not for me a high priority. I think, it can be a good enhancement of the edit control as it can allow the user to enter only the necessary information.

For example, to enter a phone number with a mask like : "00.00.00.00.00" (french national format), the user has no need to enter the dots, so if there are a lot of phone numbers to enter, it can be very faster and error free with a masked edit control than without.

What do you mean by

the ability to assign a g-label to an Edit control

?
Does it means that an event would act a G-label each time a letter (or number...) is entered in an edit control ? It can be very usefull....

[Chris]

What do you mean by

the ability to assign a g-label to an Edit control

Does it means that an event would act a G-label each time a letter (or number...) is entered in an edit control?

Yes, I think that's how it would be, though it might be better to default it to running the label only when the user tabs away from the field or presses a button to submit the form. There could be another mode to run the label for every keystroke made in the field.

[Nemroth]

Sorry, Guest was me...