Just when I'm really getting to like .Net, C# and some of the really cool things I can do like that marvelous free charting tool, I've got to go and try to input decimal numbers.

Warning: Flame on!

I've just spent several hours searching for a control to do decimal input as nicely as dBase II with no luck!

If I have a format like ##0.0 and I type 10.1, I expect to not have to position the cursor after the first blank space before typing! This is not unreasonable. I could do it in Fortran IV inputting from a teletype, for Pete's sake! In FoxBase I could type "10" and when I hit the decimal point the cursor would hop over to where it belonged and I could continue typing the fractional part. And I didn't have to write three or four event handlers to get the job done either!

Comeon! Somebody has got to have done this right in a subclassed control?

Is there any word yet? Will the next version of .Net be as good as dBase II?

Flame off