[Lazarus] To TDBEdit users: EditMask property about to being ignored

[Luiz Americo Pereira Camara]

On 6/3/2012 09:39, José Mejuto wrote:
> Hello Lazarus-List,
>
> Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 1:26:18 PM, you wrote:
>
>>> TDBEdit.EditMask should be ignored only if it has default value
>>> (nothing), if it has a value it should override field mask IMHO.
> JM>  Why should there be 2 EditMasks? To confuse people maybe?
> JM>  Just remove TDBEdit.EditMask if it is not used.
>
> There are 2 possibilities. Same field could be editted in two
> different controls at the same time, like a TDBGrid and a TDBEdit, but
> in TDBGrid you can use a more compact mask for editing a date (in
> example) but a more verbose in a TDBEdit.
>
> The second one is that if the user does not define a edit mask he/she
> can not use a TDBMaskEdit (it does not exists). The presence of a
> TDBMaskEdit in the component palette will invalidate this of course.
>
> Anyway if TDBEditMask is removed I will not complaint

Initially i think of not using TDBEdit.EditMask property at all since 
could lead to the confusion cited by Juha and to be Delphi compatible.

But given the below reasons:

- Keep compatibility with existing LCL code
- Provide a simpler way to define a Mask to datasets with fields created 
dynamically (not at design time)

I have the idea of adding a property OwnsMask that defaults to false. 
Seems a good compromise between Delphi compatibility (by default) and 
compatibility (just change a property)

More thoughts?

Luiz