rad masked textbox nulltext question.

[regina]

Is there a way to only have the nulltext italisized?  I do not want the entered text by the user to be italisized.  This seems like it would be a pretty popular thing so it seems like there must be a way , thanks in advance.
regina.

[Richard Slade]

Hello,

As far as I'm aware, it is not currently possible to change the font italics of the null text.
Regards,
Richard

[Ivan Petrov]

Hello regina,

Thank you for contacting us. You should use code to provide this functionality. Please consider the following code snippet:

private Font regularFont;
private Font italicFont;

public Form1()
{
   InitializeComponent();

   Font editorFont = this.radMaskedEditBox1.Font;

   this.regularFont = new Font(editorFont.FontFamily, editorFont.SizeInPoints, FontStyle.Regular);
   this.italicFont = new Font(editorFont.FontFamily, editorFont.SizeInPoints, FontStyle.Italic);
}

private void radMaskedEditBox1_Enter(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   this.radMaskedEditBox1.Font = regularFont;
}

private void radMaskedEditBox1_Leave(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   if (this.radMaskedEditBox1.Text.Length == 0)
   {
       this.radMaskedEditBox1.Font = italicFont;
   }
}

It's a good idea to have the fonts created once because the creation of a Font is a heavy operation and can lead to memory leaks.

I hope this will help you. If you need further assistance I would be glad to provide it.

Regards,
Ivan Petrov
the Telerik team

[Richard Slade]

Hi,

I've learnt something new here. Thanks.

May I suggest a slight change though. we can cut down on the number of events called and also we need to ensure that this is called from from_load as well in case the RadMaskedEditBox does not have a value when the form loads

private void radMaskedEditBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (this.radMaskedEditBox1.Text.Length == 0)
    {this.radMaskedEditBox1.Font = italicFont;}
    else
    {this.radMaskedEditBox1.Font = regularFont;}
}

and in form load

radMaskedEditBox1_TextChanged(null, null);

Hope that helps
Richard

[Richard Slade]

@Ivan,
Actually, your way will fire less, and so better, but this would still need the check on load

if (this.radMaskedEditBox1.Text.Length == 0)
{
    this.radMaskedEditBox1.Font = italicFont;
}

Richard