I am changing the formar of the phone number in Entity Type Custom Fields, and I want this format:
+569 # ### ####
The problem is that the number 9 does not appear in the form when I want to create a new customer.
The same thing happens with number 0
String reads special characters as specific functions… # tells it to expect a number input… so 9 is more than likely reserved. Maybe @emre can look at it for you.
Thank you @Jesse for your answer.
I am using it as a String. I tried with Widestring and the same thing is happenning.
Which SambaPOS version are we talking about?
I downloaded it yesterday. It’s 4.1.65
Here is a list of meanings of all masking chars.
0Digit, required. This element will accept any single digit between 0 and 9.
9Digit or space, optional.
#Digit or space, optional. If this position is blank in the mask, it will be rendered as a space in the Text property. Plus (+) and minus (-) signs are allowed.
LLetter, required. Restricts input to the ASCII letters a-z and A-Z. This mask element is equivalent to [a-zA-Z] in regular expressions.
?Letter, optional. Restricts input to the ASCII letters a-z and A-Z. This mask element is equivalent to [a-zA-Z]? in regular expressions.
&Character, required. If the AsciiOnly property is set to true, this element behaves like the “L” element.
CCharacter, optional. Any non-control character. If the AsciiOnly property is set to true, this element behaves like the “?” element.
AAlphanumeric, required. If the AsciiOnly property is set to true, the only characters it will accept are the ASCII letters a-z and A-Z. This mask element behaves like the “a” element.
aAlphanumeric, optional. If the AsciiOnly property is set to true, the only characters it will accept are the ASCII letters a-z and A-Z. This mask element behaves like the “A” element.
.Decimal placeholder. The actual display character used will be the decimal symbol appropriate to the format provider, as determined by the control’s FormatProvider property.
,Thousands placeholder. The actual display character used will be the thousands placeholder appropriate to the format provider, as determined by the control’s FormatProvider property.
:Time separator. The actual display character used will be the time symbol appropriate to the format provider, as determined by the control’s FormatProvider property.
/Date separator. The actual display character used will be the date symbol appropriate to the format provider, as determined by the control’s FormatProvider property.
$Currency symbol. The actual character displayed will be the currency symbol appropriate to the format provider, as determined by the control’s FormatProvider property.
<Shift down. Converts all characters that follow to lowercase.
>Shift up. Converts all characters that follow to uppercase.
|Disable a previous shift up or shift down.
\Escape. Escapes a mask character, turning it into a literal. “\” is the escape sequence for a backslash.
All other characters
Literals. All non-mask elements will appear as themselves within MaskedTextBox. Literals always occupy a static position in the mask at run time, and cannot be moved or deleted by the user.
So you can escape them as \+\5\6\9 # ### ####
That´s great! Now it works!
I have another problem now, when I click the field Phone the cursor goes to the right of the last #, so I have to move it manually to the first #. Is there a way where the cursor will appear always in the first # if you press anywhere in the field when the # are empties?
Do I explain myself?
Can anyone help me with this?
Have you tried:
\+\5\6\9 0 000 0000
Might help, otherwise @emre will need to adjust code to put the cursor at the beginning (left) of the field. It seem like odd behavior that you are experiencing…
Yes, I tried with # and with 0. Same behavior.
@emre Am I doing something wrong or SambaPOS is defined to behave like that?
@dcarey can you update your sambapos to latest one and try again?
Now is working perfect! Thank you very much!