Hi Arnaud and Chuck— I think I understand (correctly?) that, without any filter, text fields will accept all characters. It’s also my understanding that a filter acts in a way that it will allow only those characters specified by the filter itself? And there’s no way to craft a “deny” filter?
I received a call from a user that she was seeing the handling of characters with diacriticals had changed. (Mac OS and 4D v14) For instance the previous 2 keystrokes which produced é were now producing ´é. (she was having to go back and cut the first ´.) Years ago the purpose I used text filters was to prohibit “control” characters which, if stored in data, might cause unpredictable results. Short story at this time is that, in trying to track down the diacritical problem, I’m getting different results between using no text filter vs an empty text filter and I can’t seem to find a way to allow CRs It’s 2016 and we’re now all unicode; is there any reason to use a text filter at all if I’m not particularly concerned about controlling input? Has anyone else seen different behaviors between using no input filter and using a blank/null input filter? Thanks, Bill All this demonstrates I’m more capable of confusing myself thananyone else is... > On Oct 31, 2016, at 10:46 AM, Chuck Miller <cjmil...@informed-solutions.com> > wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > text fields by there nature except carriage returns. They accept all > characters. If you want to allow cut and paste from word for example, you > need to have a filter that will filter out those hidden characters that are > part of the copy. That is the purpose of filter on text fields, ti limit, not > allow characters > > Regards > Chuck > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Chuck Miller Voice: (617) 739-0306 > Informed Solutions, Inc. Fax: (617) 232-1064 > mailto:cjmiller<AT SIGN>informed-solutions.com > Brookline, MA 02446 USA Registered 4D Developer > Providers of 4D and Sybase connectivity > http://www.informed-solutions.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >> On Oct 31, 2016, at 10:11 AM, Bill Weale <bill.we...@builderman.com> wrote: >> >> For a text field, is there any entry (other than no entry) we can make >> either in the Entry Filter of a form object’s property list or in the filter >> editor which would allow the entry of a carriage return? >> >> In other words, can this be done without requiring code? > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
