YooperNC
6th February 2004 15:30 UTC

Alphabetic & AutoTab
I have two questions for the forum members:

1) How can I force a text entry field to allow only Alphabetic characters (no numbers, special characters, etc)?

2) I have set my text entry fields to be 6 characters in length (max and min both equal 6). Now, when the user enters six characters, I want the cursor to automatically jump to the next field. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance!

Dave

Joost Verburg
6th February 2004 16:42 UTC

Use the NOTIFY flag feature to check the input and take actions.

YooperNC
6th February 2004 18:49 UTC

NOTIFY doesn't seem to do anything until you press a button. I need to know when the Text Entry field has reached its maximum length of 6 characters, and then I want to set focus to the next text input field.

Also, still looking for an ALPHA-only setting for the text entry fields as well.

Thanks!

kichik
6th February 2004 18:58 UTC

NOTIFY indeed doesn't work for that purpose. So without changing the InstallOptions source code, waiting for the feature to be implmented or write a plug-in which will subclass the InstallOptions window; you can't do it.

As for alpha only, there is no flag for that so you'll have to verify on the leave function.

YooperNC
6th February 2004 19:08 UTC

Thanks
Thanks for your reply. I suppose, then, that I would like these two requests to be considered for future enhancements of the product. In the mean time, I'll go at it from your suggested approaches.

Have a great weekend!

Dave