Textfield.format issues workaround?

General
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Hello,

does someone know an easy workaround for textfield format issue?
The textfield.format property does not work well for comma as decimal separator and this problem is unfixed for 7 years :frowning:

see
<https://xojo.com/issue/16626>

I’d like to avoid in a big application to change all textfields, subclass it and make my own formatting.

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I thought that for Textfield that the mask and format were always stated in United States format
and that internally the presentation was “switched” to use the proper localization

That “##,###.00” would show either “99,999.99” or “99.999,00”

or is there a bug that I am unaware of that keeps that from happening (I don’t do much non USA formatting)

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The mask can be set to “0.0”, than you use German localization and enter “5,6” and it displays “5,0”
But if you enter “5.6” (with dot), it works!

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so Xojo uses val() and Format() internally, but should use cdbl.
(or whatever those functions are named in the framework internally)

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