Mask in FlatEdit control

CodeJock Support,

I'm in the process of evaluating your CodeJock Xtreme Suite controls and have a couple of questions regarding the FlatEdit control.  I would like to use (purchase) these controls to use on an older Visual Basic 6 application.  That application uses MaskEdit controls quite a bit and I was trying to replace it with the FlatEdit control.  This requires me to use the SetMask method of the FlatEdit, which is fine, but I have no way of "retrieving" the mask that has been set.

Is there a property or something that will give me the mask that has been set (i.e. FlatEdit1.GetMask)?  If not, would you please consider adding something like this to your control?

Also, when I do set a mask with the default prompt character (an underscore "_") to something like FlatEdit1.SetMask "000-0000", "___-____" (to hold some formatted number with a dash), I seem to have some issues retrieving the data entered from the control.  For example, if not all values are required, and the user enters "123-12" and I output FlatEdit1.Text or FlatEdit1.MaskedText, I get "123-12__".  I am getting the prompt characters in my value.  I want/need the actual data and NOT include the prompt.  What am I doing wrong here?  Not sure if this is a feature or a bug, but it would be nice to request the data in the control without the mask (pure data).

Thank you very much for your time,

DataCrypt

Yes, you are correct - I made a mistake in my original post - it does return it without the "-", but it does return the unfilled prompt character locations.  I don't think it should do that.

So if the mask is "000-0000", "___-____" and the user enters "000-12", MaskedText property should return "00012" and not "0012__".  I think this makes much more sense.  Is there any possibility of the MaskedText changing to return just the data not return the prompt character?

I will try your example mask you provided, but I notice you are not using a prompt char which I would like to display to the user so they can better see what is expected to be entered.

Thank you very much,

DataCrypt

Hello,