Is the weakness in IBO or in Delphi? In looking through the Delphi
help I haven't found anything to indicate how to do this either.

It seems like there would be a lot of demand for such functionality
(ie. entering real numbers). I am certainly surprised.

Bob.

--- In IBObjects@y..., "mmenaz" <mmenaz@l...> wrote:
> --- In IBObjects@y..., "Bob" <rcmiszuk@y...> wrote:
> > This is probably an easy question.
>
> Yes, it's easy.. you can't!
> I had to develop a custom control for currency editing (IB_Currency
in IBO palette) since standard mask editing does not work for that
porpouse.
> Jason has wrote in his site that that control can be embedded in
grids. I tryed once, but I did not succeed. Hope that if true is
beause of the code of the class it inherits from, since I've put no
code to make it "embeddable" (not lazy, just I don't know how!).
> Maybe you could try Geoff Ehn controls (see IBO page, or
http://www.telesiscomputing.com.au/enhcomp.htm) that are very strong
in powerful edit mask support, so tehy could be good and embeddable
(I don't know... Geoff?).
> Regards
> Marco Menardi
>
> > I have a column in a grid that allows the
> > user to enter numbers, and while they're entering I want to show
and allow
> > them to enter two decimal places.
> >
> > I have played with edit masks and am close to what I want with a
mask of
> > 99.99;1;0. It fails when the user types "1.23" by returning "1
23". If I
> > change the mask to 99.99;0;0 I can make "1.23" (user doesn't type
the
> > decimal) turn into "123.00" which is also not correct. Also mask
of
> > "99.99;1; " turns "1.22" into "1 .22".
> >
> > I could go on, but you get my point -- that is, I'm stuck. I
think I'm just
> > missing something simple here. I want the user to be able to
enter two
> > digits to the left of the decimal, and two to the right, and show
them two
> > digits (zeros) to the right while they are entering.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Bob.