Limiting data entry in fields

charles61 cszasz at mac.com
Mon Nov 29 17:46:59 EST 2010


Devin,

Thanks! I found it but I had to limit numbers with decimals. The numbers only script does not do that.

Charles Szasz
cszasz at mac.com




On Nov 29, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Devin Asay [via Runtime Revolution] wrote:

> Charles, 
> 
> Did you see my earlier post? There are two examples in the LiveCode Resource Center that describe exactly how to do this. 
> 
> See the LiveCode Resource Center (Help menu > Resource Center). Then look under Sample Scripts > Text. There are two sections there that will help you, one on limiting the number of characters and one on limiting input to only numbers. 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Devin 
> 
> On Nov 29, 2010, at 3:27 PM, charles61 wrote: 
> 
> > 
> > Mike, 
> > 
> > I have not thought of using "not in". I did not use "1234567890" because it does not limit decimals. 
> > 
> > Charles Szasz 
> > [hidden email] 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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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