Setting textInput.restrict=... in creation complete didn't change anything. There must be some difference or interaction between escape characters written in AS3 working in mxml. I need a programmatic solution, as there are so many places I can't manually write mxml code for each restrict. Any ideas? [Alex: not sure what you meant by "trace out the restrict property..." -- I'm testing by manually entering the characters in the text input field and seeing which ones work and which ones don't.]
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Harui" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:33:07 AM Subject: Re: how to mxml restrict with binding AS3 variable? Don't use binding, set it directly in creationComplete/applicationComplete and see if you still have a problem. If so, trace out the restrict property from the TextInput to see if got modified somehow. On 3/6/14 8:25 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: >Spark TextInput, on web/desktop. > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Maurice Amsellem" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:11:58 AM >Subject: RE: how to mxml restrict with binding AS3 variable? > >Are u using spark or mx TextInput ? is it on mobile or web/desktop? > >Maurice > >-----Message d'origine----- >De : [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >Envoyé : jeudi 6 mars 2014 16:42 >À : apache flex users >Objet : how to mxml restrict with binding AS3 variable? > >Everytime I try to modify my restrict characters I run into problems, so >I don't think I'm understanding it well. My understanding was that I need >to use a \ character before another character to escape it in AS3. >However, since I'm using an AS3 variable in a bind expression for mxml, >perhaps this changes the way I need to escape characters. Here's my >current code: > > >My mxml code has: > > >restrict=" { AppController.RESTRICT_CHARS } " > > >and the AppController singleton has: > > >public static const RESTRICT_CHARS:String= "\&\"0-9 >a-zA-Z'~!@#$%*()\\-_+=[]\\|;:<>./?{}^," ; > > >This code has a problem when I run it where I cannot enter a comma >character. Also, I found my trial an error that I needed two \\ to escape >the minus sign (not sure why... do I need two \\ when I escape other >characters?). Also, I found that I needed to place the \& at the start of >the string (if in the middle it has no effect). I must be doing something >wrong. Any help much appreciated. >
