how to make masked edit support negative numbers?

[BrashMonkey]

How would I set up a masked edit object to allow for people to enter negative number?

thanks

[drnebula]

just put a negative sign before a digit which would look like -[0-9]

Steve

[BrashMonkey]

I'm aparently hoplessly ignorant to this stuff, because I'm not getting it to work. Maybe Im also not explaining what I need correctly. I have a masked edit box that I want to allow the user to enter numbers ranging from negative 9999 to positive 9999. then when the user presses enter, it pluts an active object at that x coordinate. I can get it to work quite easily for only positive numbers, but I want to support both.

if I put:
"-[0-9]"
then the negative symbol is always there, and cant be gotten rid of.
if it try:
"[-9999-9999]"
then all kinds of strangness occurs.

[drnebula]

Try [\-]{99999}
Steve

[BrashMonkey]

That worked! Thanks so much. Thank you for being so patient with me. Is there somewhere people can go online to learn how this "syntax" works?

Because I'd have NEWVER have figured out how or why that works. That doesnt seem to show the range of numbers that's allowed and what is the "\" for? Does it let it know that the "-" is a character to be allowed and not designating a range this time?

[LB]

Yes, the slash is what is know as an escape character, to prevent it from being considered in syntax checking. Like with havin a " in MMF2:

"This "" That"
would be
This " That

The same works a similar way for other languages;

"This \" That"
would be
This " That

[uprize]

Woah, I have been using click products since KnP and have never heard about that, thanks dr nebula!

[drnebula]

HolyMonkey,

All I did was open up the maked edit object by double clicking and then clicking on the Help button. It is all explained there.

Steve