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TextEditSettings.MaskAutoComplete Property

Gets or sets the automatic completion mode used by the editor in the RegEx mask mode. This is a dependency property.

Namespace: DevExpress.Xpf.Editors.Settings

Assembly: DevExpress.Xpf.Core.v21.1.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Wpf.Core

Declaration

public AutoCompleteType MaskAutoComplete { get; set; }

Property Value

Type Description
AutoCompleteType

One of the AutoCompleteType enumeration values.

Available values:

Name Description
Default

When set to Default, the AutoCompleteType.Strong automatic completion mode is used.

None

The automatic completion feature is disabled.

Strong

Each time an end-user types a character, the editor determines if the following placeholder can be filled automatically. If only a specific character can be inserted in this position, the editor automatically displays this character, and moves the caret to the right of this character.

Optimistic

When an end-user enters a character in an empty edit box for the first time, the editor automatically fills all the following placeholders with the default values. For placeholders that accept only numeric values, the ‘0’ character is the default. For placeholders that accept word characters, the “a” character is the default.

Property Paths

You can access this nested property as listed below:

Object Type Path to MaskAutoComplete
TokenEditorBehavior
.TokenEditSettings .MaskAutoComplete

Remarks

To learn more, see Mask Type: Simplified Regular Expressions.

See Also