I need to, on mouseup after clicking a button, check the contents of a small
text field to make sure it doesn't contain any variation of a specific
string of characters.
Example, the field can not contain "My Name" or "my name" or "My name" or
"this is My Name" or "my name rocks" etc.
I'll script the button in the following way ...
on mouseup
if field "f_name" contains [insert script here]
then answer "Your name can't contain the words "My Name" in any form" with
"OK"
if it is "OK" then put empty into field "f_name"
else go to next card
end mouseup
Working with 1.0 Starter Kit.
Also, thank you to those who've helped with the chat code, especially
Michael Fisher and the SimpleChat author.
David
Try the following script in a button with a field called
"TheName":
constant cTheWords = "my name", cAdjustedWords = "my_name"
on mouseUp
put field "TheName" into checkName
replace return with space in checkName
replace cTheWords with cAdjustedWords in checkName
repeat for each word w in checkName
if w = cAdjustedWords then
answer warning "Your name can't contain the words '" & cTheWords & "'" \
with "OK" titled "Oops!"
put empty into field "TheName"
exit mouseUp
end if
end repeat
answer information "Off to the next card..." \
with OK titled "Your Name's OK"
-- go to next card
end mouseUp
(I've broken long lines with \)
This will replace any carriage returns in the field text with
spaces to make sure the following check works OK. Then it
replaces the space between "my" and "name" with
underscore to make "my name" appear to be the single word
"my_name". The repeat loop steps through all the words
in the adjusted copy of the field looking for the word
"my_name".
The above detects "my name" as an error, but happily
allows someone with the name "Remmy Namely"!
Obviously you should remove the second answer command and enable
the "go to next card" in your actual application.
Cheers
Peter
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Peter Reid
Reid-IT Limited, Loughborough, Leics., UK
Tel: +44 (0)1509 268843 Fax: +44 (0)870 052 7576
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Reid-IT Limited, Loughborough, Leics., UK
Tel: +44 (0)1509 268843 Fax: +44 (0)870 052 7576
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.reidit.co.uk
