How do I force a key to enter just one character when being pressed?
John Dixon
dixonja at hotmail.co.uk
Wed Jan 19 05:49:54 EST 2011
In the script of fld "text"...
on keyDown theKey
if the number of chars of fld "text" > 0 then
beep
exit keyDown
else
put theKey into fld "text"
end if
end keyDown
> Hi there,
>
> I limit text entry of fld "text" with following code.
>
> on keyDown pKey
> if (the formattedHeight of fld "text" < the height of fld "text")
> then
> pass keyDown
> end if
> end keyDown
>
> One thing that I want to change now is a way to force a key to enter
> just one character after being pressed/hold down.
> Any thoughts on that?
>
> greetings,
>
> William
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