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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