[Openroad-users] BufferText

[Simon Lovell]

What about the KeyPress event?  Would that be any better?

Greenstein, Stacey - ES/EW wrote:

> 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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