I was recently in need of a numeric textbox for a small compact framework application I’m writing at home. The best I could find on the web was this MSDN article, but unfortunately it wasn’t as bullet proof as I’d like it to be, so I used the code as a base, and wrote my own.
Features:
- Allows numeric only entry
- DecimalPlaces property
- Specify how many decimal places the number should have. 0 decimal places = integer numbers (no decimal separator allowed)
- Defaults to 2 decimal places
- AllowNegatives property
- Specifies whether to allow negative number values or not
- When the number is negative, the font changes color from black to red
- defaults to not allow negative number entries
Sample application with code:
The code isn’t exactly pretty, but it works, and that’s all I was after.
Feel free to take it for a spin, and let me know if you can break it, so I can fix any loopholes.
