Re: Numeric field with negative numbers

[Creative Digital Publishing Inc.]

>Is there any reason a field set as a numeric type will not accept negative
>numbers?  Last I checked, numbers less than zero still existed. ;-)

A definite oversight in the number-handling routines. Here's how we handled
it in our EditFormHandleKeystroke function:

// at the very end of the keystroke-handling routine,
// filter characters for numeric field to allow negative #s

  fldPtr = GetFocusObjectPtr ( );
  if ( fldPtr ) {
    if ( fldPtr->id == theFieldThatNeedsNegNumbers ) {
      if ( IsPrint ( GetCharAttr ( ), key )) {
        if (( ! IsDigit ( GetCharAttr ( ), key )) && ( key != '-' )) {
          return ( true );
  } } } }
 return ( false);

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Steve Mann

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