Based on our tests and the current thread, when defining an input field as
numeric the field only accepts numbers & the decimal point. If this is
true, am I to understand PalmOS (3.1) does not acknowledge negative numbers
as valid numeric data?
"William F. Weiher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> But as I remember, you can still paste in non-numeric data.
>
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sean L.
> Gilley
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 14:13
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Re: keyDownEvent question
>
>
>
> At 11:11 AM -0500 7/17/01, Jeremy Nuss wrote:
> >Hello everyone, I have a problem. I am trying to limit a user to only
> >typing numerical characters into a text field (and the backspace). I
have
> >done this using the keyDownEvent, however it only works for graffiti...
if
> >the user pops up the virtual keyboard they can type in any character they
>
> Uh, am I missing something? I use pilrc to create my resource files, but
> I simply set the field type to 'NUMERIC' and it handles this problem.
> Won't allow graffiti input of non-numerals, and won't allow keyboard input
> of non-numerals. Just check. I assume there's a similar thing for
> Codewarrior.
>
> Sean.
>
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