Text Box dilemna

[Klaus Major]

Hi Stewart,

> I need to find a way to trap and stop anyone from deleting selected 
> text.
> For example, in a text field, if one selects text and hits any key
> (including delete, return, fwd delete or enter),  I need the the 
> keypress
> to be ignored and the selection disappear.
> IE, I only want people to be able to hit the backspace (delete) key and
> delete one character at a time and only if there is no text selected at
> the time of pressing the key.  I need to stop it before it happens, or 
> if
> it does happen, undo it immediately without user intervention.
>
> Any suggestions?

Yo :-)

Put this in your card or field script:

on backspacekey
   ## do your own backspace thing here...
end backspacekey

Ad lib the same with:

deletekey, returninfield and enterinfield...

Hope this helps...

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Regards

Klaus Major
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