Sloppy text ... in numeric control

Our software validation folks are banging on my latest app. One of them went to a numeric control and tried to input text. He said it's"weird". I think it looks like garbage. I have never noticed this before. Any way I can get rid of it?
PaulG.
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PaulG. wrote:
crossrulz wrote:
Yep, you can type anything into a numeric control (silver, modern, classic, and system). But when you hit enter or click out, it goes to 0. I don't know of any way to get rid of this.
No, you can't type "anything". Some of it appears in the control and some of it doesn't. It looks like garbage.
Sorry, any alpha, numeric, plus, minus, period, and/or space.
Probably has something to do with being able to handle all of the formats (hex, exponential, decimal).
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