I have to say that the solution to this problem is data validation, or simply fixing what sure looks like a bug in TextInput. You can't disable something as good for users as copy and paste simply because as a coder you're too lazy to validate the input.
Well, you can, but your customers will notice, and your app will feel "weird" to them and they won't like it so much. -Josh On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Dmitri Girski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > > > > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
