WP7-Control to enter numeric data?

Question

I've got a WP7 app where I need to enter large numeric data (6 digits and more) - is there some kind of advanced numeric control to enter large numbers comfortably?

Answer 1

By comfortably, do you mean the keyboard that comes up? Or that you don't want to use a keyboard at all?

In Silverlight, I believe that one way to set the type of keyboard is set the scope of the input for the TextBox... so in XAML:

<TextBox InputScope=”Number” …/>

or for a phone keypad

<TextBox InputScope=”TelephoneNumber” …/>

Answer 2

Hi Sam,

Further to Chris' suggestion to use TelephoneNumber input scope, you might also consider trimming out any unwanted entry from keys you don't want to allow, like # for example.

Some code to demonstrate:

    private void textBox1_TextChanged(object sender, TextChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (textBox1.Text.Contains("#"))
        {
            var s = textBox1.SelectionStart;
            textBox1.Text = textBox1.Text.Replace("#", "");
            textBox1.SelectionStart = s-1;             
        }         

    }