slowness of "on keyUp" script

[Mike Bonner]

DOH yep, so shoulda been if not offset("-",me) > 0 then ...

I went the direction of inserting the hyphens after the fact to make it
easier to foil a stubborn user.  Just limit the input to numbers and insert
the hyphens after exitfield/closefield.  (though you can paste invalid text
into the field so the end user can still do stuff to it)

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Peter M. Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Jul 1, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> This will be a problem: offset("-",me) will evaluate to a number but the
> "if" statement is looking for a boolean.
>
> >      put "-" after char 5 of me
> >      put "-" after char 3 of me
> >   end if
> > end doHyphens
>
> Here's what I use:
>
> on keyDown x
>    if x is not in "0123456789" then
>       beep
>       exit keyDown
>    end if
>    if the number of chars of me is among the items of "3,7" then
>       put "-" after me
>    end if
>    pass keydown
> end keyDown
>
> > 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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