Kerry- not calling this checkChar method at all will allow you to paste in
as many characters as you want.
My understanding was that the field was still to be limited to 150 chars,
they just didn't want the alert going off when it was exceeded- just for the
pasted string to be automagically cropped at 150.
samn
-----Original Message-----
From: Kerry Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:10 PM
Subject: RE: <lingo-l> to many characters
>> when I paste for example 200 characters into the member("Body") it
>> went
>> completey crazy. Alert, alert , <snip>
>>
> Something isn't right here. Text and field members should be
>able to hold 150 characters easily--I've done it many times, including
>cut and paste.
>
> What kind of member is it? What version of Director? What OS?
>What is the source of the text (html, Word, etc.)? What is the language?
>
> I don't think you need to auto-delete the characters. There's
>something else going on, and it's probably pretty easy to fix.
>
>Cordially,
>
>Kerry Thompson
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