restrict number of characters in a field?

[Ben Rubinstein]

On 27/7/06 17:11, Dar Scott wrote:
> 
> On Jul 27, 2006, at 2:14 AM, Klaus Major wrote:
> 
>>> Interestingly the behaviour has changed a bit between 2.6.1 and 
>>> 2.7.2, but not fixing this bug.
> 
> What changed?

Sorry, that was a bit gnomic!

Confession: I've not really immigrated to 2.7 yet, but spend most of my time 
in 2.6.1, with occasional dipping of toes into the modern world.  So I started 
looking at this in 2.6.1, and then checked my results in 2.7.

In 2.6.1, the pattern seen in the message watcher when typing into a field is 
as follows:

I type 'c':
    rawKeyDown
    keyDown
    rawKeyUp
    rawKeyUp
    keyUp

    and c is entered in the field

I type option-c:
    rawKeyDown
    optionKeyDown
    rawKeyUp
    rawKeyUp
    keyUp

    and c-cedilla is entered in the field

I type option-u:
    rawKeyUp
    rawKeyUp
    keyUp

    and nothing is entered in the field

I type u (immediately after option-u):
    rawKeyUp
    rawKeyUp
    keyUp

    and u-umlaut is entered in the field

The pattern in 2.7 is the same (ie no rawKeyDown or optionKeyDown for the 
sequence option-u, u) - except without the duplicate rawKeyUp seen in each 
sequence.  So it looks like that was a bug that was quietly spotted and fixed 
(I can't see anything about in Bugzilla) - but without addressing this problem.

There.  Full disclosure!

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