At 20:01 +0100 02/05/2002, Tony �str�m wrote:
>when I paste for example 200 characters into the member("Body") it went
>completey crazy. Alert,
>alert , alert , alert , alert , alert , alert , alert , alert , alert
>.............
>How can I prevent this and auto. delete the character(s) after the 150 ?
Instead of pasting directly into your 'body' member, try pasting into
a placeholder member first (check out pasteClipBoardInto, for
instance). Then do a char count on that or, more usefully, just take
char[1..150] of it.
Apart from that I'm assuming your count test is happening on
something like an exitFrame event. Thus every time the stage
refreshes, your test runs again. Consider using a keyDown event
instead, which will only do the counting when text is being entered:
on startMovie
the keyDownScript = "checkChar"
END startMovie
on checkChar
if member("Body").text.length > 150 then
if gLang = "eng" then
alert "Max 150 characters. Should you need more then please state
it in your e-mail."
else if gLang = "fra" then
alert "Max 150 caract�res. Si vous avez besoin de plus de place,
contacter nous par E-mail."
end if
stopEvent()
else
pass
end if
end
The above's just one idea. You might also want to (for instance)
allow the user to press arrow keys, and delete/backspace, but skip
the rest, when the char count is above 150.
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