yes. on closeField. However be aware that clicking a button before tabbing out of the field will NOT send a closeField to an edited field. Someone sent me a workaround for that, but I cannot find it right now. I am sure it is in the archives. Note that exitField is sent when a field loses focus, whether any edits were made or not. CloseField only gets sent when the field has been edited.
I will say that validations on leaving a field can be dicey. Let's say a field contains the value "Bears". Later you create a validation that only allows a subset of dog breeds, and you validate upon exit whether or not anything has changed. Empty is not a valid entry. You will end up locking your user into the field and the only way out is to enter a random dog breed that may not apply, but is the only way out. I would only use what I call mid-validations (as opposed to pre-validations to precheck and format data before putting it into a field or post-validations to pre-check or format data before writing it to a database) to do things like phone number formatting, zip code formatting, upper and title case formatting etc. Nothing that will halt the user and demand he do something different. Just my 2ยข Bob On Oct 25, 2011, at 2:21 PM, James Hurley wrote: > I have a text field (unlocked) that the user can edit, but I want to know > when and to deal with the changes. > > Here is what I have come up with, something of a kludge. Is there a cleaner > way? > > on mouseEnter --Enter the field > set the textChange of me to false > end mouseEnter > > on rawkeydown tKey > if the textChange of me is true then > pass rawKeyDown > else > set the textChange of me to true > pass rawKeyDown > end if > end rawKeyDown > > on mouseLeave > if the textChange of me is false then > exit mouseLeave > else > send "mouseUP" to button "ProcessChanges" --This is where the change is > dealt with. > end if > end mouseLeave > > > Jim Hurley > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
