Please suggest an easy way to deactivate a fields scripts

[Phil Davis]

Here's a simple approach - it assumes that your "don't evaluate" button 
is a checkbox or other similar one whose hilited state is changed by 
clicking it:

-- script of field

on doThis
  if the hilite of btn "don't evaluate" = true then exit doThis
  -- followed my normal 'doThis' code
end doThis

on doThat
  if the hilite of btn "don't evaluate" = true then exit doThat
  -- followed my normal 'doThat' code
end doThat

HTH -
Phil Davis


william humphrey wrote:
> I have a data entry field with a bunch of scripts in it that do things like
> search through a set of data by watching each key stroke. This is fine must
> of the time but occasionally I just want to quickly put some data in it that
> is not evaluated. Presently I use "contents" of the inspector to do that but
> for the final program would like a button you press that says "edit field no
> checks" or something and that button turns off all the scripts in that field
> so you can quickly put in some data. The only way I can think to do it is to
> have another field that pops up and you put the data is and then it closes
> and enters the data in the field with all the scripts. I was just wondering
> if there was a quicker way to do that
-- 
Phil Davis

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