maybe - ON BEFORE KEYSTROKE test the current entered length vs expected/desired maximum (255, 4000 etc)
On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:30:21 +1000, David Adams via 4D_Tech wrote: >> Tested with v16R4. Unfortunately this does not work nicely. > > No idea who thought this one up, but it wasn't me. I've seen and heard > plenty of 4D developers who keep a table with fields of various lengths. In > your case, an alpha 255 and a text field. Then, you use that field on your > form and 4D automatically controls the maximum length for you with zero > coding. For that matter, you could test what the object is, find it's a > field, get it's type and length. I think. > > The idea is not that you save the field data - the table ends up with zero > records. It's just using a field as a temporary container instead of using > a variable as a temporary container. > > Maybe that's enough for you if all you're needing to distinguish is 255 and > text? It obviously does not automatically trim your text fields at 4,000 > characters. > > What would be very nice indeed is if 4D could add a custom dictionary to > every object (Cannon Smith put in an excellent feature request about > this...it was popular) and for every structure object, like a field (Jeff > Kain applied Cannon's idea to structure objects and started another popular > feature request.) > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** --------------- Gas is for washing parts Alcohol is for drinkin' Nitromethane is for racing ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
