Staying on a field

[Bill Vlahos]

Pete,

It is in the dictionary under "is a" and "is not a". Date is one of the many options.
	* date if it is in one of the formats produced by the date or time functions

Bill Vlahos
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On May 3, 2011, at 11:26 PM, Pete wrote:

> Folks,
> Not strictly related to this but what date format does the syntax "if this
> is not a date" use?  And where is it documented that  "a date" is a valid
> expression?  Just curious since I've spent several hours writing code to try
> to validate a date based on the user's system settings and I've never seen
> mention of this anywhere
> 
> Thanks,
> .
> Pete
> Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins <pepetoo at cox.net> wrote:
> 
>> Bill,
>> 
>> I'd try eliminating the exit closeField and the pass closeField from your
>> handler as a first effort. I don't think either are needed in this case and
>> may confuse the "focus" issue.
>> 
>> HTH,
>> 
>> Joe Lewis Wilkins
>> Architect & Director of Product Development for GSI
>> <www.glsysinc.com>
>> 
>> 
>> On May 3, 2011, at 9:14 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote:
>> 
>>> I do a validity check on a field to see if the user entered a valid date.
>> If the user entered a valid date and presses TAB or RETURN the focus moves
>> on to the next field. However, if the user enters an invalid date I want to
>> keep the focus on the field to try again.
>>> 
>>> This field script does everything correctly except that it doesn't set
>> the focus back on the field. What am I doing wrong?
>>> 
>>> on closeField
>>>  if me is not a date then
>>>     answer error "Not a valid date. Retry?" with "No" or "Yes"
>>>     if it is "Yes" then
>>>        focus on me
>>>        exit closeField
>>>     end if
>>>  end if
>>>  pass closeField
>>> end closeField
>> 
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