-- VS2005

OK....VS2005 has a new maskedtextbox control - but it's not behaving as I thought it wound if I set it for decimal inpput. Maybe I'm overloooking something.

Here's what I did to subclass the textbox control. My class has a public property for the datatable and datacolumn source, and a boolean for whether the column takes decimals. If it does, I use two handlers to convert back and forth between currency and string. So anytime I needed to do any databinding to a decimal datatable column, the two handlers would take care of it.

Let me know if this helps...

Kevin

public class cgsTextBox : System.Windows.Forms.TextBox 
{
		    
  public override Font Font
  {
	get {return base.Font; }
	set {base.Font = value; }
  }

   private DataTable m_DtSource;
   public DataTable DtSource
   {
	get {return m_DtSource ;}
	set {m_DtSource  = value; }
   }

   private DataColumn m_DcSource;
   public DataColumn DcSource
   {
	get {return m_DcSource ;}
	set {m_DcSource  = value; }
   }

   private bool m_lDecimal;
   public bool lDecimal
   {
         get {return m_lDecimal ;}
         set {m_lDecimal  = value; }
   }

		
   public cgdTextBox()
   {
      base.Font = new  Font("Verdana",8);
      this.Enter	+= new EventHandler(OnEnter);
      this.Leave	+= new EventHandler(OnLeave);
      this.KeyDown	+= new KeyEventHandler(OnKeyDown);

   }


   public void DecimalToCurrencyString(object sender, ConvertEventArgs cevent)
   {
       if(cevent.DesiredType != typeof(string)) return;
 	cevent.Value = ((decimal) cevent.Value).ToString("F2");
   }


   public void CurrencyStringToDecimal(object sender, ConvertEventArgs cevent)
   {
      if(cevent.DesiredType != typeof(decimal)) return;
         cevent.Value = Decimal.Parse(cevent.Value.ToString(),NumberStyles.Currency, null);
   }

   public void OnKeyDown(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e)
   {
      if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Enter) 
	SendKeys.Send("{TAB}"); 
   }

   public void  OnEnter(object sender,EventArgs e ) 
   {
	this.SelectAll();
	this.BackColor = Color.Yellow;     
    }

    public void  OnLeave(object sender,EventArgs e ) 
    {
	this.BackColor = Color.White;     
    }

    public void BindControl() 
     {
	if(this.m_DcSource != null)
	{
   	    this.DataBindings.Clear();
   	    System.Windows.Forms.Binding newBinding ;

 	    newBinding = 
                 new System.Windows.Forms.Binding( "Text",this.m_DtSource,this.m_DcSource.ColumnName.ToString());
  	    if(this.lDecimal==true) 
     	    {
		this.TextAlign = HorizontalAlignment.Right;
		newBinding.Format += new ConvertEventHandler(this.DecimalToCurrencyString);
		newBinding.Parse += new ConvertEventHandler(this.CurrencyStringToDecimal);
 	     }

  	     this.DataBindings.Add(newBinding);
	}
      }

}