Weeping Jesus on the cross! Password & email fields should be disabled from Copy-pasting just for the sake of minimising the number of support calls from users who forgot which particular email or password they copied & pasted).
Over & out. Cheers, Dmitri. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Josh McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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] >
