Hi,
Since we’ve encountered your new RadMaskedInput controls and realized, that these are the replacement of your RadMaskedTextBox (they are, aren’t they?), we didn’t find any reason for this update. Even worse, we are about to use your old RadMaskedTextBox on.
We mostly use your input controls for non-restricted text or non-restricted numeric values. In those cases we expect an input behavior like a normal TextBox got. More precisely, inputs a user enters shouldn’t replace old characters just because the mask restricts the length of the characters. The input, a user does should be just inserted at the caret’s position, without replacing.
The other problem, we’ve ran into is the following: We’ve bound a string value to the Value property of a RadMaskedTextInput control. This control has a mask of 20 optional alphanumeric characters (Mask=”a20”). Now when moving the caret at a different position then the beginning, the entered text would be saved without leading whitespaces. That’s a behavior which no user would expect.
Using your old input control, we didn’t run into all this trouble. I don’t think that there are many developers, who are used to your old Input Control, like the new ones. I don’t understand why you’ve replaced good working controls with these weak components.
I would recommend you to provide just one suite of input controls, which really work and which offers a way to be less restrictive.
Best,
Martin