EditStyle Property, SftMask Object

Defines the edit style of the control.

Syntax

Get

Put

object

A SftMask object.

Style

Defines the edit style of the control.

Comments

The EditStyle property defines the edit style of the control.

The EditStyle property controls the presence of the up/down buttons, the drop down button and the ellipse button. Up/down buttons, drop down button and ellipse button cannot be displayed at the same time in one control.

The up/down buttons, drop down button or ellipse button are visible based on the EditStyle property. The Locked, LockedDropDown, LockedEllipse and LockedUpDown properties define whether the control and the drop down button, ellipse button and up/down buttons are enabled. In addition, the up/down buttons and drop down button are only enabled if the caret location (input position) is in a field requiring up/down buttons or the drop down button.

Up/down buttons can be used with numeric field by using the ^ subtoken (see Mask property).

A drop down button can be used with all date/time related input fields to display a popup calendar. The DropDownWidth property can be used to define the appearance of the drop down button.

If the control is used as a simple edit control (without Mask), up/down buttons or the drop down button can be made visible, but they will be disabled. There is no mechanism to enable them in this case.

Examples

VB.NET View entire sample code

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
    AxSftMask1.Caption.SizePercent = 33
    AxSftMask1.Caption.Text = "&IP:"
    AxSftMask1.Mask = "$I^03(0,255)\.$I^03(0,255)\.$I^03(0,255)\.$I^03(0,255)"
    AxSftMask1.Text = "127.0.0.1"
    AxSftMask1.EditStyle = SftMaskEditStyleConstants.editSftMaskUpDown
    AxSftMask1.AutoAdvance = True
    AxSftMask1.AutoSize = True
    AxSftMask1.TabAdvance = True
    AxSftMask1.TabAdvanceLast = True
    AxSftMask1.EntrySelect = SftMaskEntrySelectConstants.entrySftMaskSelectHome
    AxSftMask1.EntrySelectMouse = True
End Sub

VB6 View entire sample code

Private Sub Form_Load()
    SftMask1.Caption.SizePercent = 33
    SftMask1.Caption.Text = "&IP:"
    SftMask1.Mask = "$I^03(0,255)\.$I^03(0,255)\.$I^03(0,255)\.$I^03(0,255)"
    SftMask1.Text = "127.0.0.1"
    SftMask1.EditStyle = editSftMaskUpDown
    SftMask1.AutoAdvance = True
    SftMask1.AutoSize = True
    SftMask1.TabAdvance = True
    SftMask1.TabAdvanceLast = True
    SftMask1.EntrySelect = entrySftMaskSelectHome
    SftMask1.EntrySelectMouse = True
End Sub

C# View entire sample code

private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    axSftMask1.Caption.SizePercent = 33;
    axSftMask1.Caption.Text = "&IP:";
    axSftMask1.Mask = @"$I^03(0,255)\.$I^03(0,255)\.$I^03(0,255)\.$I^03(0,255)";
    axSftMask1.Text = "127.0.0.1";
    axSftMask1.EditStyle = SftMaskEditStyleConstants.editSftMaskUpDown;
    axSftMask1.AutoAdvance = true;
    axSftMask1.AutoSize = true;
    axSftMask1.TabAdvance = true;
    axSftMask1.TabAdvanceLast = true;
    axSftMask1.EntrySelect = SftMaskEntrySelectConstants.entrySftMaskSelectHome;
    axSftMask1.EntrySelectMouse = true;
}

C++ View entire sample code

    m_pMask1 = m_Mask1.GetControlUnknown();
    _ASSERT(m_pMask1 != NULL);

    m_pMask1->Caption->SizePercent = 33;
    m_pMask1->Caption->Text = _T("&IP:");
    m_pMask1->Mask = _T("$I^03(0,255)\\.$I^03(0,255)\\.$I^03(0,255)\\.$I^03(0,255)");
    m_pMask1->Text = _T("127.0.0.1");
    m_pMask1->EditStyle = editSftMaskUpDown;
    m_pMask1->AutoAdvance = VARIANT_TRUE;
    m_pMask1->AutoSize = VARIANT_TRUE;
    m_pMask1->TabAdvance = VARIANT_TRUE;
    m_pMask1->TabAdvanceLast = VARIANT_TRUE;
    m_pMask1->EntrySelect = entrySftMaskSelectHome;
    m_pMask1->EntrySelectMouse = VARIANT_TRUE;

    return TRUE;

See Also SftMask Object | Object Hierarchy