Hi dcp,
Answer a bit off topic :-)
From an ergonomic point of view it might be not desirable to display
modal error dialogs every time any entry does not comply with what is
expected.
Very boring for the user to whom you say: 'You are not very bright...
Click the OK button to agree with this and do it again!'
Instead you can work upstream by preventing the user to enter a wrong
value i.e. by allowing him to type an expected char and not any
another one.
No beep, no alert: if the char is not right nothing happens and
that's all: it acts as a simple non intrusive reminder.
To achieve this, "#020 How to master users data in entry boxes"
tutorial might help you:
This stack shows you how to allow the user to type the data you
expect according to a format in an entry box field.
Five examples are provided from a simple ZIP code to custom
sophisticated formats.
You will access this tutorial through "Tutorials Picker" a free
plugin that interfaces with the So Smart Software website in order to
display all available tutorials stacks directly from the web.
You will find it by going to http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/.
Revolution/Plugins or Tutorials section.
Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
PS. You can add a tooltip to the entry box (or better: a contextual
help area somewhere on the card) that will remind the user about
expected formats.
Le 10 janv. 08 à 23:54, dcpbarrington a écrit :
My data validation is failing in a strange way. If I enter the
correct
value, the validation comes back TRUE and everything is ok, but if
I put in
a BAD value, the data validation returns FALSE and displays the
correct
error message. WORKS AS EXPECTED, BUT The application returns the
user to
the data entery field with the text selected. I then enter the
data in the
correct format and from then on the validation always returns
FALSE. I must
be using something incorrectly or there is a bug. Here is what I
have in RR
V2.8.1
I have a Postal Code data entry field that I have added the following
validation:
on closeField
put me into tPostalCode
if CheckPostalCode(tPostalCode)= false then
answer error "Format of postal code is incorrect: ##### or
#####-####"
select the text of me
exit closeField
end if
end closeField
CheckPostalCode is a Stack Script
--|
function CheckPostalCode tCodeToCheck
put "^(\d5(( |-)\d4)?)" into tRegExp
answer information "Code = " &tCodeToCheck && " Exp = " &tRegExp
return matchText(tCodeToCheck, tRegExp)
end CheckPostalCode
I have added a debug statement and the data the I have entered is
being sent
to the matchText function and the regular express is as I defined.
Once the
error starts I'm unable to leave the data entry field without the
error
condition and must close the card to get out of the loop. Any
ideas would
be appreciated.
dcp
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