Changing the decimal separator

[Canal da Poeira - Felipe Miranda]

Hi.

I'm trying to use the textbox with "NumberOnly" on.

but I'm developing an app for Brazilian users, and at Brazil they use comma as a decimal separator.

The textbox doesn't accept comma, only dot.

Is there any way to change that?

[Abraham Getzler]

I don't know how to fix that, but I can suggest how to work around it ...

Turn off the text box's Numbers Only attribute, and instead  run a fast clock that check's the last digit entered against "0123456789,"

and chops off the end if it's not acceptable.

The keyboard doesn't look numeric, though.

Alternatively, you could pop up your own arrangements of buttons to act as a numeric keyboard,

with buttons for 0-9, comma, clear, and Done, and a label to show the number in progress.

ABG

[Italo]

Another solution could be to let the user input the numbers like in an ATM, where the last 2 digits typed are always the decimals. If you do it like that, the user don't need to type a point or a comma.

[Abraham Getzler]

+1 @Italo

ABG

[ScottFerguson]

Here is my solution:

(the textbox NumbersOnly property is not checked)

[Abraham Getzler]

Attached is my overkill solution, with @Italo's ATM machine keyboard idea, using blanks for thousands and comma for decimal point,

parametrizable, and usable for multiple input fields with a little more work.

ABG