[Openroad-users] BufferText

[Andrew]

Thanks Gary.

Gary Hansford wrote:
>
> 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
>>> *Member of Technical Staff
>>> ITT Electronic Systems
>>> Electronic Warfare Systems
>>> MS 63850
>>> 77 River Road
>>> Clifton NJ 07014-2099
>>> Phone: (973) 284-2707
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>>> stacey.greenstein at itt.com
>>>  
>>>
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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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