Custom Input Mask

[Brenmank]

I am new to Autoit, and I have created a GUI form that users will enter a project number and Project name into a input box.   The program will then create a directory on our file servers based on the information in the forms.   I want to create an input mask I can control the information entered.

 

Here is how I would like each box's data to look.

 

Project #    12-1234-00.   -  I want the - to always appear in the third and 8 spot.   The user would only have to typew 12123400, and the information would automatically format itself.,

Project Name -  I just need an input to replace any spaces with an underscore.

 

Any help that someone could provide would be great.

 

Thanks...

[AutoBert]

38 minutes ago, Brenmank said:

Project Name -  I just need an input to replace any spaces with an underscore.

...Any help that someone could provide would be great.

StringReplace is the magic func for this:

StringReplace
Replaces substrings in a string.


StringReplace ( "string", "searchstring/start", "replacestring" [, occurrence = 0 [, casesense = 0]] )

Have a look in the helpfile and it's example to understand.

[UEZ]

Here the input section:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

$hGUI = GUICreate("Test GUI", 581, 43)
$iLable = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Project #", 6, 8, 72, 25)
GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 14, 400, 0, "Times New Roman")
$iInput = GUICtrlCreateInput("", 96, 8, 385, 21)
$iButton = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button", 496, 8, 75, 25)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

GUIRegisterMsg($WM_COMMAND, "_WM_COMMAND")

While 1
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            GUIRegisterMsg($WM_COMMAND, "")
            GUIDelete()
            Exit
    EndSwitch
WEnd

Func _WM_COMMAND($hWnd, $Msg, $wParam, $lParam)
    If BitAND($wParam, 0x0000FFFF) = $iInput Then
        Local $s = StringRegExpReplace(GUICtrlRead($iInput), "[^0-9]", "")
        GUICtrlSetData($iInput, $s)
        Switch StringLen($s)
            Case 3 to 6
                GUICtrlSetData($iInput, StringLeft($s, 2) & "-" & StringMid($s, 3))
            Case 7 To 10
                GUICtrlSetData($iInput, StringLeft($s, 2) & "-" & StringMid($s, 3, 4) & "-" & StringMid($s, 7, 2))
        EndSwitch
    EndIf
    Return "GUI_RUNDEFMSG"
EndFunc

The 2nd part is very easy by following what AutoBert has said.

Edited January 24, 2016 by UEZ
Fixed issue when non digits were entered.

[Brenmank]

Thanks for all the help.  I will give it a try...

[mikell]

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

$hGUI = GUICreate("Test GUI", 530, 70)
GUICtrlCreateLabel("Project #", 6, 8, 110, 25)
GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 14, 400, 0, "Times New Roman")
$iInput1 = GUICtrlCreateInput("", 120, 8, 385, 21)
GUICtrlSetLimit(-1, 10)
GUICtrlCreateLabel("Project name", 6, 35, 110, 25)
GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 14, 400, 0, "Times New Roman")
$iInput2 = GUICtrlCreateInput("", 120, 35, 385, 21)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

GUIRegisterMsg($WM_COMMAND, "_WM_COMMAND")

While 1
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            GUIRegisterMsg($WM_COMMAND, "")
            GUIDelete()
            Exit
    EndSwitch
WEnd

Func _WM_COMMAND($hWnd, $Msg, $wParam, $lParam)
    Switch BitAND($wParam, 0x0000FFFF) 
      Case $iInput1
        Local $s = StringRegExpReplace(GUICtrlRead($iInput1), '\D', "")
        GUICtrlSetData($iInput1, StringRegExpReplace($s, '(^\d{2})|(\d{4})\K', "$1-") )
      Case $iInput2
        GUICtrlSetData($iInput2, StringRegExpReplace(GUICtrlRead($iInput2), '[\h_]+', "_"))
    EndSwitch
    Return "GUI_RUNDEFMSG"
EndFunc

 

[Tormund]

Hello Guys,

I´ve a very similar situation here.  There is one inputbox in my GUI which I should receive a Product-ID and I would like to use this very good solution provided by @mikell to avoid problems of mistyping.

My project ID is like this example: 1234567-89.2016.8.19.0001

The biggest problem with my Product-ID is related to the existence of two different types of separators such as "-" and " . " and because of this I´ve no idea to solve this using Regex.... maybe the best approach is StringReplace but once that I my ID is so big, StringReplace is killing me.

So I was wondering if someone here could help me to achieve this goal... 

Cheers

[Tormund]

2 hours ago, Tormund said:

Hello Guys,

I´ve a very similar situation here.  There is one inputbox in my GUI which I should receive a Product-ID and I would like to use this very good solution provided by @mikell to avoid problems of mistyping.

My project ID is like this example: 1234567-89.2016.8.19.0001

The biggest problem with my Product-ID is related to the existence of two different types of separators such as "-" and " . " and because of this I´ve no idea to solve this using Regex.... maybe the best approach is StringReplace but once that I my ID is so big, StringReplace is killing me.

So I was wondering if someone here could help me to achieve this goal... 

Cheers

 

Thank you guys, I just found a way to achieve what I was looking for. 
I´ll post the code here for future reference.
By the way, I just modified the code for my needs. The original post came from this thread (http://forum.autoitbrasil.com)

 

Func WM_COMMAND($hWnd, $iMsg, $wParam, $lParam)
Local $iCode = BitShift($wParam, 16)
Local $iIDFrom = _WinAPI_LoWord($wParam)
Switch $iIDFrom
Case $tbMyInputNumber
Switch $iCode
Case $EN_UPDATE
Local $sWMCOMMAND_MyInputNumberRead = GUICtrlRead($tbMyInputNumber)
Local $sWMCOMMAND_MyInputNumberLastChar = StringRight($sWMCOMMAND_MyInputNumberRead, 1)
Local $aWMCOMMAND_MyInputNumberDotSplit = StringSplit($sWMCOMMAND_MyInputNumberRead, "/")

If StringLen($sWMCOMMAND_MyInputNumberRead) = 7 Then
GUICtrlSetData($tbMyInputNumber, $sWMCOMMAND_MyInputNumberRead & "-")
ElseIf StringLen($sWMCOMMAND_MyInputNumberRead) = 10 Then
GUICtrlSetData($tbMyInputNumber, $sWMCOMMAND_MyInputNumberRead & ".")
ElseIf StringLen($sWMCOMMAND_MyInputNumberRead) = 15 Then
GUICtrlSetData($tbMyInputNumber, $sWMCOMMAND_MyInputNumberRead & ".")
ElseIf StringLen($sWMCOMMAND_MyInputNumberRead) = 17 Then
GUICtrlSetData($tbMyInputNumber, $sWMCOMMAND_MyInputNumberRead & ".")
ElseIf StringLen($sWMCOMMAND_MyInputNumberRead) = 20 Then
GUICtrlSetData($tbMyInputNumber, $sWMCOMMAND_MyInputNumberRead & ".")
ElseIf StringLen($sWMCOMMAND_MyInputNumberRead) = 25 Then
GUICtrlSetData($tbMyInputNumber, $sWMCOMMAND_MyInputNumberRead)
EndIf
Case Else

EndSwitch
EndSwitch

Return $GUI_RUNDEFMSG
EndFunc ;==>WM_COMMAND