slowness of "on keyUp" script

[Mike Bonner]

Does this work better for you?

on keydown pKey
   if the length of me < 9 and  pKey is a number then
      pass keydown
   else
      beep
   end if
end keydown
command doHyphens
   if not offset("-",me) then
      put "-" after char 5 of me
      put "-" after char 3 of me
   end if
end doHyphens

on openfield
   replace "-" with empty in me
end openfield

on closefield
   doHyphens
end closefield
on exitfield
   doHyphens
end exitfield

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> I' surprised at how slow this is--I can type fast enough to foul it.
>
> American social security numbers have nine digits, with a dash after
> the third and fifth.
>
> I attached this to a field to handle it automatically
>
> on keyUp theKey
>    if the length of me = 3 or the length of me=6 then put "-" after me
>    if theKey is among the chars of "0123456789" then
>       pass keyup
>    else
>       beep
>    end if
>
> end keyUp
>
> If I blast a bunch of numbers on the keyboard at once, I get extra
> numbers before the hyphens: right now it shows 873124-6758021394
>
>
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