Mirroring Text Entry

Sarah Reichelt sarahr at genesearch.com.au
Wed Jul 7 21:47:32 EDT 2004


Hi Joe,
The easiest way is probably to use a keyUp handler in the original 
field, like this:

on keyUp
   put me into fld "Mirror"
   pass keyUp   -- just in case it is used elsewhere
end keyUp

closeField only happens when a field is changed AND when you tab or 
click out of the field. The keyUp handler will happen whenever you do a 
keystroke, so the mirroring will be instant.

Cheers,
Sarah

On 8 Jul 2004, at 11:34 am, Gardner, Joseph A wrote:

> Apologies if this is too simple for me to find, but I'm looking for a 
> way to mirror text from one field to another; that is, as a user 
> enters text in a field, it is automagically entered in another field 
> (and deleted if the text is deleted from the main field). I've 
> searched the docs but can find no function for this and then tried to 
> write a loop myself, but nothing comes of it. Appreciate any pointers 
> or hints about getting this happening.
>
> Many thanks in advance...
>
> joe.



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