OKB (not okblacke) wrote:
> Maybe describing my overall problem will be useful, because it
> may
> be that my inexperience with Dabo is causing me to miss a better
> solution. What I want is to be able to intercept any attempt to
> edit the text in the box, and have "veto power" over it. I want to
> ask, for any edit: will this edit cause the text to no longer match
> a certain pattern? If so, I want to disallow the edit entirely and
> just leave the text in the edit box unaffected. (More
> specifically, I am trying to let the user edit a preloaded text
> only as far as adding and removing newlines; they should not be
> able to change the text in any other way.) I would ideally like
> this to work for any kind of edit attempt (i.e., selecting text and
> deleting it, deleting from the insertion point, typing at the
> insertion point, whatever), but if it just works for keyboard edit
> that would be workable.
Sorry to be a nag, but any ideas on this? I still haven't been
able to figure out how to get this effect.
Thanks,
--
--OKB (not okblacke)
Brendan Barnwell
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is
no path, and leave a trail."
--author unknown
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