Can one permanentaly change a text field's case to capitals?

Jonathan Lynch jonathandlynch at gmail.com
Tue Jan 31 14:50:16 EST 2006


Just a note about the pastekey...

I am on a windows machine, and I find that using the pastekey handler is not
always perfect.

You can paste with either ctrl-C or with the insert button. I use a
rawkeydown script instead of a pastekey script. With rawkeydown, I can test
for either ctrl-C or the insert button.


On 1/30/06, Ken Ray <kray at sonsothunder.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/30/06 8:56 PM, "Jim Ault" <JimAultWins at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > On 1/30/06 6:37 PM, "Ken Ray" <kray at sonsothunder.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> on pasteKey
> >>   put toUpper(the clipboardData["text"]) into the selection
> >> end pasteKey
> >
> >> Simple, no?
> >
> > Cool, since they could only enter the clipboardData using the keyboard
> to
> > paste... or perhaps a mouse and a menu command, if paste is available.
> > Would pasteKey catch the menu?
>
> No - you'd have to handle that in the Edit menu button script. I might
> choose to use a custom property on the field to determine if it should be
> all caps or not:
>
> on menuPick pChoice
>    if pChoice = "Paste" then
>      if the uCapsOnly of the selectedField is true then
>        put toUpper(the clipboardData["text"]) into the selection
>      else
>        put the clipboardData["text"] into the selection
>      end if
>    end if
> end menuPick
>
> (Of course this would be longer with switch/case for more menu items other
> than Paste, but you get the idea.)
>
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>
>
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