Constraining an input field's contents to be a single line.
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hh at hyperhh.de
Thu Sep 21 06:26:51 EDT 2017
Did you already try the following?
This works here, also with pasted text.
on textchanged
lock screen; lock messages
put the selectedChunk into sc
replace cr with space in me -- or with empty
select sc
unlock screen; unlock messages
end textchanged
> > Mike B. wrote:
> > If "textchanged" triggers on paste, you can probably use that..
>
> Alex T. wrote
> textchanged does trigger - but *after* the text has appeared. With
> returninfield and pastekey I get the message first - and can prevent the
> character being inserted.
>
> In order to use textchanged, I'll need to keep a local copy of the field
> content so that if I do find a CR I can restore the previous content and
> selection point - but on a very quick try that does seem to work OK.
>
> I'll have to check it out more thoroughly, and then try it on mobile,
> but it sounds like it should work - thanks.
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