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I am using a configuration file to store a mask to a field that is then used to set the mask for the textfield.

The mask is 9999-999 and when I store the mask to the textfield, it bombs the app every time. I've determined that it doesn't like the hyphen in the mask and yet the LR says that any literal character can be used in the mask.


Update:

If I store the mask 9999-999 as the property of the textfield it works fine, but if I do it like this:

textfield.mask = rs.field("MASK").stringvalue

it barfs every time.

PURE guess...
The hyphen may not be 'the' hyphen character. Pretty sure there are two.
So: what encoding does the stringvalue get you?

and does
textfield.mask = "9999-999" work using a literal?

Yes, the mask works if I type it in as a property of the text field. I have not changed the text encoding from the default and I'm typing this into a field which is being saved in a "text" field and then storing that value to the mask property.

I see you're point, but I don't think that's the issue.

If it were me I would get two textfields, one filled in with the value from the database and the other with characters from the keyboard. I assume they will visually look the same in the window but now look at their hexadecimal values in the debugger and see if they are identical there. There has to be a difference of some sort I would think.