>I am trying to find out how to do something in VFP that I can easily do in PowerBuilder. In pb I can setup "edit sytles". In VFP this should probably be done via classes; however, I can not find any examples in VFP5.0 of this.
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>Have I overlooked something?
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>Has someone else created some classes similar?
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>example: I want to create an edit for phone numbers; however, I do not want to store it on the area on the database setup. I want to store it in a class library so that I can change the class in the future and all the references to it in all database will immediately reflect this. On the database setup screen I will reference the class instead
>of hardcoding the (999)-999-9999 for example.
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>Hope this is clear.

Carl, look at the inputmask property and the format property 'r'. The combination will give you what you want, and you can make a class out of it easily.

For a telephone number:
Inputmask: (999) 999-9999
Format: r
The result is stored as 6503450152, seen on the screen as (650) 345-0152

HTH
Barbara