don't forget many use commas for decimal points too... Tildes for 1'000's etc...
cheers X > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Lynch, Jonathan > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 3:34 PM > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: RE: Ensuring numeric input > > .2 is a number > . is just a period, not a number > > -2 is a number > - is just a minus sign, not a number > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Ray > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:16 AM > To: Use Revolution List > Subject: Re: Ensuring numeric input > > On 10/26/05 10:58 PM, "Michael J. Lew" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the suggestions, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be > > anywhere near that easy. A user can put the insertion point > within a > > number and so I need to check before the character is > entered whether > > the value will be a number after the new character is added at the > > insertion point. The new character may be at the start of a numeric > > string, in the middle or at the end. I can't find an easy function > > that gives the insertion point relative to the > selectedLine. Most of > > the complexity of my script is in deciding where the > insertion will be > > made in the line of interest. > > > > Still lacking a simple solution... > > Try this one (script of the field): > > on keydown whichKey > if whichKey is among the chars of "01234567890.-" then > put me into tTemp > put word 2 of the selectedChunk into sChar > put word 4 of the selectedChunk into eChar > if eChar > sChar then -- some text is selected > delete char sChar to eChar of tTemp > end if > put whichKey after char eChar of tTemp > if isNumber(tTemp) then pass keyDown > end if > end keyDown > > Basically it checks to see if the end product would end up > with a numeric value, and if so, it will allow the keystroke > to happen. > > BTW: There was no reason to trap for backspace/delete as > there isn't a way AFAIK to remove some or part of a number > and have the end result *not* be a number. > > HTH, > > Ken Ray > Sons of Thunder Software > Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage > your subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage > your subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
