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Usercontrol with maskedit

I've made an usercontrol on the basis of maskedEditBox.
Is there a way to pass all the functionality of the maskedEdit from the "inside" maskedEditbox to the "outside" of the usercontrol
without having to program all the functions and properties

Sancler

I don't think so. To allow that would render encapsulation meaningless.

What you might be able to do - although I do not know if this would meet your needs - is, rather than making a usercontrol based on the masked edit box, make your own class which inherits from the masked edit box. Then all the functions and properties of the base class would also be exposed in the inherited class.

Roger

Bob Learned

I agree with Roger. Usually you wrap a different class to simplify the access methods, such as wrapping Windows API calls. If you are going to encapsulate a MaskedEdit box, then you are looking to limit access to all the functionality.

Bob

dgb

ASKER

Roger :
Can you explain it a bit more, maybe with a very small example

For now I've made an readonly property OrgObject wich passes the orginal maskedEditBox to the outside.
a bit of a workaround but it works.

Thanks

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Bob Learned

Roger,

It sounds like we are assuming 2005 and the MaskedTextBox, and it might be 2003 with the COM MaskEditBox control.

Bob

Sancler

Bob

True

Public Class MyMaskedEdit

Inherits AxMSMask.AxMaskEdBox

Public Sub setEuropeanDate()
Me.Mask = "99 ??? 9999"
Me.BackColor = Color.AliceBlue
Me.Focus()
End Sub

Public Sub setUSDate()
Me.Mask = "??? 99 9999"
Me.BackColor = Color.Bisque
Me.Focus()
End Sub

Public Sub clearMask()
Me.Mask = ""
Me.BackColor = Color.White
Me.Focus()
End Sub

End Class

Even more fatuous, but still illustrative ;-)

Roger

dgb

ASKER

It's 2005 so the first example is oke.

Gone check it out, meanwhile i will reward the points.

Thanks.

Dirk