The
ExMaskEdit ActiveX control handles the format of text entered by the user.
What does ExMaskEdit provide, and other mask edit control doesn't? The
ExMaskEdit control provides a nice and useful feature, that we called
multi-mask ( haven't seen it before ) , that means that the control is able to
handle more than a mask at runtime. Sometime, your mask doesn't fit all the
requirements, or the masking rules are limited, so you are unable to use a
standard mask edit control. That's the reason why we decided to get released
the ExMaskEdit ActiveX control. The ExMaskEdit control can subclass a standard
edit control or a rich control edit. When the control subclasses a rich edit
control, the mask is painted using an user color. Here's a list of types of
data that you might want to mask: license keys, IP addresses, urls, e-mails,
phone numbers, decimal numbers, hexa numbers, binary numbers, alpha and digit
characters, date, time, and so on.
| | Name | Description | |
| | ActiveMask | Specifies the index of active mask. | |
| | AllowBeep | Specifies whether the control plays a beep once the user enters any invalid character. | |
| | AllowContextMenu | Specifies whether the control displays the content menu when user right clicks the control. | |
| | AllowEmptyValue | Specifies whether the field supports empty values. | |
| | AllowToggleInsertMode | Specifies whether the control is toggling the InsertMode when the user presses the Insert key. | |
| | Appearance | Retrieves or sets the control's appearance. | |
| | AttachTemplate | Attaches a script to the current object, including the events, from a string, file, a safe array of bytes. | |
| | BackColor | Specifies the control's background color. | |
| | BackColorReadOnly | Indicates the control's background when the control is read only. | |
| | Background | Returns or sets a value that indicates the background color for parts in the control. | |
| | CursorPos | Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the cursor position. | |
| | Enabled | Enables or disables the control. | |
| | EventParam | Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the current's event parameter. | |
| | ExecuteTemplate | Executes a template and returns the result. | |
| | Font | Retrieves or sets the control's font. | |
| | ForeColor | Specifies the control's foreground color. | |
| | ForeColorReadOnly | Indicates the control's foreground when the control is read only. | |
| | ForeColorRich | Retrieves or sets the color to show the editable entitity, while the Type is RichEdit and the value is not completed. | |
| | HTMLPicture | Adds or replaces a picture in HTML captions. | |
| | hWnd | Retrieves the control's window handle. | |
| | Images | Sets at runtime the control's image list. The Handle should be a handle to an Images List Control. | |
| | ImageSize | Retrieves or sets the size of icons the control displays.. | |
| | InsertMode | Specifies the control's inserting mode that could be insert-type or over-type. | |
| | Invalid | Indicates the html-tooltip message to be shown when the user enters an invalid value. | |
| | Mask | Retrieves or sets a string expression that indicates the control's mask. | |
| | MaskChar | Retrieves or sets a value that determines masking character. | |
| | MaskFloat | Specifies whether the Mask property masks a floating point number. | |
| | Masks | Retrieves or sets a value that determines all possible masks that user can use at runtime. | |
| | MultiLine | Retrieves or sets a value that determines whether the control can accept multiple lines of text. | |
| | Password | Displays all characters as an asterisk (*) | |
| | PasswordChar | Retrieves or sets a value that determines password character. | |
| | ReadOnly | Retrieves or sets a value that determines whether the control is read only. | |
| | Refresh | Refreshes the control's field. | |
| | ReplaceIcon | Adds a new icon, replaces an icon or clears the control's image list. | |
| | Right | Right aligns text in a single-line or multiline edit control. | |
| | Select | Selects the text between Start and End | |
| | SelectGotFocus | Indicates whether the entire text is selected once the field receives the focus. | |
| | SelEnd | Returns or sets the ending point of text selected. | |
| | SelStart | Returns or sets the starting point of text selected. | |
| | ShowImageList | Specifies whether the control's image list window is visible or hidden. | |
| | ShowToolTip | Shows the specified tooltip at given position. | |
| | Template | Specifies the control's template. | |
| | TemplateDef | Defines inside variables for the next Template/ExecuteTemplate call. | |
| | TemplatePut | Defines inside variables for the next Template/ExecuteTemplate call. | |
| | Text | Retrieves or sets the text displayed in the control. | |
| | TextIncludeLiterals | Determines the way the Text property returns or set the value of the field | |
| | TextIncludeLiteralsLoseFocus | Determines how the field shows its content once it loses the focus. | |
| | Type | Retrieves or sets the base class for the mask field. | |
| | Valid | Retrieves a value indicating whether the contrl contains a valid value. | |
| | ValidateAs | Indicates the additional validation is performed, once the user leaves the field. | |
| | Value | Retrieves the control's value with or without literals. | |
| | Version | Retrieves the control's version. | |
| | VisibleMasks | Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the number of visible items in the control masks list. | |
| | VisualAppearance | Retrieves the control's appearance. | |
| | Warning | Indicates the html-tooltip message to be shown when the user enters an invalid character. | |
