First of all, MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Now, can anyone tell me how to put characters in edit boxes that CANNOT be
erased or overridden by the user????  For example, in a phone number box,
I need to permanently display parenthesis and a dash:  (     )       -

       (714) 888-8888
 Somene suggested a "masked" edit box, but I have not found any info on these
anywhere.  Please Help!

Thanks

martin

There are masked textboxes out there, you just have to find them.
Go to www.activex.com and search for "DataMask"  This is a shareware
control that allows masked data - ideal for phone numbers, addresses,
and e-mail addresses.  Since it's shareware, you may want to search
around for a freeware one - you just have to look around...

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This is what I would do.

Create a CEdit subclass called CMyEdit class.
Inside the subclass, handle ON_WM_CHAR message
as follows.

void CMyEdit::OnChar(UINT nChar, UINT nRepCnt, UINT nFlags)
{
        // Don't invoke the default handler
        // CEdit::OnChar(nChar, nRepCnt, nFlags);

Mark T.

Make it "Read-Only"