Limiting data entry in fields

[charles61]

Mike,

I have not thought of using "not in". I did not use "1234567890" because it does not limit decimals.

Charles Szasz
cszasz at mac.com




On Nov 29, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Mike Bonner [via Runtime Revolution] wrote:

> Is there a reason to use 'not in "1234567890"' rather than 'is a number' 
> just curious to know. 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Andrew Kluthe <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> > 
> > Inside of the field script put something like this: 
> > 
> > on keyDown pKey 
> > 
> > put the number of chars of me into sCount 
> > 
> > if sCount < 3 then 
> > 
> > if pKey is not in "1234567890" then 
> > 
> > pass keyDown 
> > 
> > end if 
> > 
> > end if 
> > end keyDown 
> > 
> > This should make it so that everytime a key is pressed in that field it 
> > counts how many characters it has, if it is less than 3 it checks to see if 
> > it is a number or in the allowed list, if so it passes that key. 
> > 
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