Re: Prompt characters in a MaskedTextBox

I imagine you could handle the paint event, but--can you give us
background on why you don't want the actual characters the user types to
show?  If the entry is complicated enough to need regex validation, I
would think blinding the users to what they're typing could possibly
annoy them...

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Bhatnagar, Amit
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:57 AM
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Subject: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] Prompt characters in a MaskedTextBox

I have the need to create a customized text entry box that can accept
various types of geographic coordinates. The problem=20

The MaskedTextBox only allows a single prompt character to be displayed
upon user input. I need the ability to display different prompt
characters for certain character positions. How can I do this? Also, due
to the nature of the text being inputted, I suspect that I will need to
use a regex to validate this properly. So I'm assuming because of these
two limitations, that the MaskedTextBox isn't the way to go.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can go about this? Use a
regular text box and validate against a reg expression? But how do I
handle displaying the custom prompt characters?

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