Hi,
I'm trying to understand the masked textctrl.
Something is strange about it. Simple scenario.
I have a zipcode field. I use the USZIPPLUS4 autoformat.
So far so good, everything fine. However when I tell it "emptyInvalid=True"
There is a difference between validation and emptyvalidation.
I want the user to type something valid in there (so NOT empty), but I don't
want to force the last 4 digits. This is fine with the validation, but not
with the emptyInvalid set.
I tried to address the fields, but all autoformats only have one field !
Since I can't get this working another question:
Is there a way to set the background color similar to the way I'd do it in a
normal TextCtrl ?
Then I could omit the emptyInvalid alltogether, since that's the behaviour of
all non-masked fields
Aka:
------------- snip ------------
text = textCtrl.GetValue()
if len(text) == 0:
if self._message:
wx.MessageBox(self._message, "Error")
else:
wx.MessageBox("Field requires a value !", "Error")
textCtrl.SetBackgroundColour("pink")
textCtrl.SetFocus()
textCtrl.Refresh()
return False
else:
textCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(
wx.SystemSettings_GetColour(wx.SYS_COLOUR_WINDOW))
textCtrl.Refresh()
return True
-------- snip ---------
Please don't tell me I have to create the format myself. I drive the widget
generation completely off a database and I'd have to make major changes to my
db.
Any help is appreciated
UC
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Ok, I figured the first part. One should check how the mask is created, so no
wonder it only had one field 
(I should get a whiskey to start thinking
clearly :-))
Anyways. It still doesn't work.
I have the USZIPPLUS4 and set field 0 to
xx.SetFieldParameters(0,emptyInvalid=True)
and I explicitly set
xx.SetFieldParameters(1,emptyInvalid=False)
However the value
94066-
is still invalid.
To my understanding it should be fine.
I'll play some more with it ....
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On Thursday 05 June 2003 09:41 pm, Uwe C. Schroeder wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to understand the masked textctrl.
Something is strange about it. Simple scenario.
I have a zipcode field. I use the USZIPPLUS4 autoformat.
So far so good, everything fine. However when I tell it "emptyInvalid=True"
There is a difference between validation and emptyvalidation.
I want the user to type something valid in there (so NOT empty), but I
don't want to force the last 4 digits. This is fine with the validation,
but not with the emptyInvalid set.
I tried to address the fields, but all autoformats only have one field !
Since I can't get this working another question:
Is there a way to set the background color similar to the way I'd do it in
a normal TextCtrl ?
Then I could omit the emptyInvalid alltogether, since that's the behaviour
of all non-masked fields
Aka:
------------- snip ------------
text = textCtrl.GetValue()
if len(text) == 0:
if self._message:
wx.MessageBox(self._message, "Error")
else:
wx.MessageBox("Field requires a value !", "Error")
textCtrl.SetBackgroundColour("pink")
textCtrl.SetFocus()
textCtrl.Refresh()
return False
else:
textCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(
wx.SystemSettings_GetColour(wx.SYS_COLOUR_WINDOW))
textCtrl.Refresh()
return True
-------- snip ---------
Please don't tell me I have to create the format myself. I drive the widget
generation completely off a database and I'd have to make major changes to
my db.
Any help is appreciated
UC
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