Hi Paul, Here is the example: there is a text input field where you can enter only digits and a dot sign, nothing else. If you use restrict="0123456789." property - it's fine until user copy-pastes the string from somewhere else. If you allow c-n-p you have to do complex validation and point user to the invalid input. If you have 20 text input fields - this solution just sucks. All this Flex error tooltips and dumb error message boxes (20 errors - 20 popups) are bad, very bad. So, the simplest and just working solution is to disable copy- paste. This is probably what is called Apple solution - do not allow users to think too much, if it is not allowed - "they don't need it, anyway."(c) And surprisingly, this works quite well.
And as I said before, if TextInput control has a "restrict" property, it should be able to disable copy-pasting, otherwise it is useless, and sometimes dangerous, as not so many developers realise that setting this property does not protect them from the invalid input. Cheers, Dmitri. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dmitri Girski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 1:28 PM > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Preventing cut&paste in Flex3 application > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Andrews" <paul@> wrote: > > > >> Good software is all about enabling people not disabling them. > > > > This is just a meaningless statement. > > I think it's more of a guiding principle.. > > >You can't enable everything for > > everyone in any possible way. > > That wasn't my suggestion. > > > First, good software does whatever it is supposed to do. > > .. and more. > > > Then comes > > the rest (including copy-paste). > > Even the OP agrees it's not a good idea to restrict copy-paste. > > Just to clarify Dmitri, my point was that the focus of software should be to > enable people to do whatever they wish and not hamper them in that pursuit > without very good reason. > > Paul > > > Cheers, > > Dmitri. >
