Input Mask in VB 6

[Wallegator]

I have a VB 6 data entry form. I have a date field and a phone # field. How do I force entry into the form in the format mm/dd/yy for date and 000-000-0000 for phone #?

Thank you in advance.

 

[DarenNM]

The easiest way would probably be to add the Masked Edit control to the project and place a masked edit control on the form for phone number and one for the date. Look up the "Mask" property in the help for the exact format.

Hope that helps

Daren

 

[johnwm]

To get dates (and ensure that they are in the right format) I usually use the Date/Time Picker control. It's in Microsoft Windows Common Controls-2 6.0 SP4. You can set the format that it displays in, and format its Value to get exactly what you want.

That avoids any problems with 2/1/2002 (Jan 2 or Feb 1) etc Let me know if this helps
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[eelsar]

Use the maskEdit control

For a phone# for example

Private Sub maskCaller_GotFocus()

maskCaller.Mask = "(###) ###-####"

End Sub

This will force the user to enter it in the format of
(123)456 - 7890

If you will be reading in from a database you will notice that the mask doesn't occur. Therefore in the propery window for the mask box by format enter the following

\(000\) 000 \- 0000

I used the same thing in a program recently

for dates do like this

Private Sub maskDate_GotFocus()

maskCaller.Mask = "##/##/##"

End Sub

Hope this helps!
eelsar