Limiting the number of characters per line in a scrolling field?

[Dar Scott]

On Apr 23, 2005, at 4:14 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote:

> This seems to do the trick but now I have to ask...
>
> What's an accented character?

I'm thinking of umlaut and such.  Maybe I'm using the wrong word.

On OS X when I type in option-u u, the key message handlers are 
bypassed.  Maybe that's been fixed?

Dar

>>> on keyDown pKey
>>>   if (pKey is an integer) and (the number of chars of the 
>>> selectedLine
>>> < 5) then pass keyDown
>>> end keyDown
>>
>> Will this let in the occasional accented character?
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