>Seems to me that not using the Windows setup value was a system decision >on behalf of compatibility with the older versions of Fox, which had >nothing like a default input mask. Seems like the only way to circumvent >this behavior is to get this input mask string from some API function >(must be somewhere; maybe it's still somewhere in win.ini or the >registry), and to subclass the TextBox in order to have .activate() (or >whatever is early enough) like this: Thanks, but in report, since it is not OOP, it's getting difficult to make the format automatic.