I have an unbound masked edit control with a mask for a social security number. I had code in the click event of a button to clear the SSN but it would only work the first time the button was clicked.

This is the line of code I used:

Me.MaskedEdit1.Text = " / / " (3 spaces, 2 spaces, 4 spaces)

Also tried:
Me.MaskedEdit1.Text = " / / " (same spaces)
Me.MaskedEdit1.Mask = "###/##/####"

And:
Me.MaskedEdit1.Mask = "###/##/####"
Me.MaskedEdit1.Text = " / / " (same spaces)

Any ideas?


Thanks

You need to set the text to null and you don't need to specify the "text" property since it is the default property. The following worked for me when I tried it:

Private Sub Form_Open(Cancel As Integer)
MaskEdBox0 = ""
MaskEdBox0.Mask = "##/##/####"
End Sub

Ixalmida,

Thanks for the reply. For some reason it didn't work for me. I got an error during compile.

Hmm...maybe it is a version thing. I was only able to try it in VB5. Then again, you may just have a corrupted component. Who knows?

You may have a point. I should have mentioned I am using VB.Net.