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

andu undo at cloud9.net
Mon Nov 26 19:06:01 EST 2001


John Vokey wrote:
> 
> 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.

on returninfield
exit returninfield
end returninfield

> --
> "Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators."
> -- Richard Dawkins
> 
> John R. Vokey

Andu



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