Thanks, that link shows how to restrict unicode characters. That's pretty useful too.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Balderson" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 9:42:04 PM Subject: Re: how to mxml restrict with binding AS3 variable? If anyone's interested, the ref link in Om's blog entry is out of date. You can find it at: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/text/TextField.html#restrict _______________________________________________________________________ Joseph Balderson, Flex & Flash Platform Developer :: http://joeflash.ca Author, Professional Flex 3 :: http://tinyurl.com/proflex3book OmPrakash Muppirala wrote: > On Mar 6, 2014 9:11 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> I found by experimentation that the following works, >> >> public static const RESTRICT_STRING_FOR_CSV:String = "0-9 > a-zA-Z\&\"'~!@#$%*()\\-_+=[]|;:<>.?,\\^{}"; >> which uses ONE backslash to escape the ampersand and double-quote > characters, but TWO backslashes to escape the minus sign (e.g. \\-) and the > caret (e.g. \\^). However, I can't seem to figure how to escape the > backslash character (I tried \\ and \\\ and neither worked). >> Is this making sense to anyone? Any idea how to escape backslash? >> > > I blogged about this a while ago: > http://www.bigosmallm.com/2008/03/how-to-restrict-backslash-character.html?m=1 > > > See if that helps? > > Thanks, > Om > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 9:02:07 AM >> Subject: Re: how to mxml restrict with binding AS3 variable? >> >> 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. >>> >> >> >
