[Openroad-users] BufferText

[Gary Hansford]

Andrew,

To speed things up - you could also remove the fieldobject creation /
destruction in the event block and instead use the trigger field and
string object.

e.g: -

ON BUFFERCHANGED comments = 

DECLARE

ENDDECLARE

BEGIN

    tally = EntryField(CurFrame.TriggerField).BufferString.Length;

END


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From: openroad-users-bounces at peerlessit.com
[mailto:openroad-users-bounces at peerlessit.com] On Behalf Of Andrew
Sent: 05 February 2008 23:27
To: International OpenROAD Users
Subject: Re: [Openroad-users] BufferText


Hi Simon,

There is more work in using keypress.

BufferText is alot easier and now with using On BufferChanged its great.

ON BUFFERCHANGED comments =
declare
    fo = FieldObject;
{
    fo = Field(comments);
    tally = Length(EntryField(fo).BufferText);
}

Regards,
Andrew.

Simon Lovell wrote: 

	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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		ITT Electronic Systems
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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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