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Creating new text field classes

Blogged by Björn Meyer on November 29, 2006 and tagged with sample, .net.

I am currently working on new samples and ideas for our new BrowserTextControl that is part of TX Text Control Server for ASP.NET (incl. Windows Forms). In one of these samples, I needed a field with a fixed length.

Sometimes, text fields must be enhanced for different applications. Consider a currency text field in an invoice or quotation that checks it's own validity.

Or a field that allows only digits instead of letters.

I have made a new sample that illustrates how to create a new text field class that offers a field with a fixed length. Missing characters in the field are filled up with a fill character like a dot ('.') or an 'x'. This class inherits all properties and methods from the base class TextField.

Read the full article in our source code library:

How to add additional functionality to a text field by inheriting from the TextField class

 
 
User Contributed Note

User Contributed Note by gautroton July 4, 2007 at 1:47:14 PM CEST

I want to add properties to TextField by creating a new class which inherits from TextField. But of course, when I Add an instance of my "PersonalTextField" to athe TextFieldsCollection I does'not work. My PersonalTextField is casted to an ordinary TextField!! It would be a huge work (and probably impossible) to implement new classes for TextFieldsCollection and hence for TextFrame.TextFieldsCollection and so on... and so on... Any idea?...
 

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