SAMPLE: Data Input Verification for Edit Controls

 Last reviewed: July 22, 1997
Article ID: Q72023
3.00 3.10 WINDOWS kbprg kbfile

The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows versions 3.0 and 3.1

There is a file in the Microsoft Software Library called VERIFY.EXE that contains sample code demonstrating the verification of the contents of a dialog box edit control. The code reads and verifies the edit control string as each character is entered by the user.

The contents of the edit control are verified to be legal for a specified data type. If an illegal character is encountered, the character is removed from the edit control and a message beep is generated. The code will verify the input of WORD, DWORD, or FLOAT values.

Download VERIFY.EXE, a self-extracting file, from the Microsoft Software Library (MSL) on the following services:

  • Microsoft Download Service (MSDL) 

          Dial (206) 936-6735 to connect to MSDL
      Download VERIFY.EXE (size: 21978 bytes)
  • Internet (anonymous FTP) 

          ftp ftp.microsoft.com
      Change to the \SOFTLIB\MSLFILES directory
      Get VERIFY.EXE (size: 21978 bytes)

Additional reference words: 3.00 3.10 softlib VERIFY.EXE
KBCategory: kbprg kbfile
KBSubcategory: UsrCtl
Keywords : kb16bitonly UsrCtl kbfile kbprg
Version : 3.00 3.10
Platform : WINDOWS

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Last reviewed: July 22, 1997
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