Thank you very much / Jim

>>Something easy I'm missing here ...
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>>I have a numeric column in a grid. I'd like the values to display using a value for inputmask of '9,999,999'.
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>>However, the user can modify the data in this column, and the inputmask really screws things up when the user tries using the keyboard.
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>>So, I'll looking for the way to set the inputmask so that it applies for each row, unless the user is editing the value, in which case I want to discard the inputmask. Somehow, this seems related to "sparse" (which is .F. is my example)?
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>Sparse should be .t. if you want a specific control of yours to be in each row, otherwise it's active in current row only.
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>There's some snag in VFP's textbox if the inputmask contains commas. My trick was to just remove those commas in .gotfocus and restore them in the .lostfocus of the textbox. I have a .savemask property, so
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* gotfocus
>this.savemask=this.inputmask
>this.inputmask=chrtran(this.inputmask, ",", "")
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>* lostfocus
>this.inputmask=this.savemask
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