[Openroad-users] BufferText

[Greenstein, Stacey - ES/EW]

I believe that KEYDOWN fires before the character is added to or removed from the buffertext. You could check what key was pressed and add 1 if the key wasn't backspace or delete, and subtract 2 if backspace or delete was pressed. Too bad there is no KEYUP event, which is what you really want... an event that fires after the buffer is changed.

Stacey Greenstein
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From: openroad-users-bounces at peerlessit.com [mailto:openroad-users-bounces at peerlessit.com] On Behalf Of Andrew
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 9:51 AM
To: International OpenROAD Users
Subject: [Openroad-users] BufferText

Hi All,

OR4.1 on WinXp.

Anyone out there displaying a tally or character count of a multiline entryfield as a user types?

I have tried using buffertext but when the user starts typing the length of the buffertext is one less than what is displayed.

If the user backspaces once then the count goes up by one. If backspaces again then the count goes down by one, but the count does not represent the actual number of characters displayed in the field.

My field event look like this:

ON KEYDOWN comments =
declare
    fldobj = fieldobject;
{
    fldobj = field(comments);
    tally = length(EntryField(fldobj).BufferText);
}

I have also tried BufferString but get the same behaviour.
My comments field is a varchar(2000).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Andrew.


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