[Metacard] RE: capturing the "return" key in a field

[John Vokey]

Never mind.  Re-starting metacard solved the problem, although I have no
idea how that could possibly help.
-- 
It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of
literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science.
-- Richard Dawkins

John R. Vokey, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
University of Lethbridge

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> From: John Vokey <vokey at uleth.ca>
> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:04:11 -0700
> To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: capturing the "return" key in a field
> 
> Ok, I give up.  What's the secret?  This should be obvious and simple, but I
> can't get any of the alternatives to work.  I have a simple field that
> collects responses when given the focus, and I want to prevent the user from
> typing a return into the field.  However, none of keyDown, rawKeyDown, etc.
> seem to do it.  In the ref stack, it is implied for all that all I have to do
> is *not* pass the key if it is return and all should be fine, but regardless
> of what I do ***even if I pass nothing from the handler*** a return is still
> entered into the field.  What gives?  For example, the handler in the field
> scipt:
> 
> on rawKeyDown x
> end rawKeyDown
> 
> *still* puts a return in the field!  I am more than a little baffled, not to
> say frustrated.  Metacard PPC 2.4.
> -- 
> "Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators."
> -- Richard Dawkins
> 
> John R. Vokey