[Gambas-user] Miscellaneous routines for text box validation

[Stefano Palmeri]

Alle 11:32, venerdì 8 febbraio 2008, Stefano Palmeri ha scritto:
> Alle 04:39, venerdì 8 febbraio 2008, richard terry ha scritto:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > My gambas learning project is progressing well (a contacts database
> > manager), and I've got the point I can create new
> > people/names/address(es), etc, now have to fine tune the gui, so not
> > wanting to re-invent the wheel, I wondered if anyone had in their
> > possession, or pointers to it, code which would do stuff like.
> >
> > for textboxes:
> >
> > Autocapitalise, or autocaps
> > Date validation routines/formatting routines
> > Name auto capitalisation eg for McBeth, or O'Neil etc
> >
> > Also In VB  in the textbox routines one had (index, keyascii) and one
> > could manipulate the keyascii value to whatever to either exclude keys or
> > autocapitalise things etc
> >
> > I wondered how this worked in gambas, as though I can detect the
> > keypress, I couldnt see a way to send back a changed key value to the
> > textbox.
> >
> > Thanks in anticipation.
> >
> >
> > Richard
>
> Hi, Richard.
>
> In the attached example, you have a form with a textbox.
> What it does:
>
> 1) it autocapitalises the text when it changes
>
> 2) print the ascii code of the pressed key
>
> 3) it doesn't allow "W" or "w"
>
> 4) when you press space bar it becomes an underscore
>
> all is commented in the code, so you see what does what.
>
> I think it will not be difficult for you to manage Mc or O'
> using string manipulation functions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stefano Palmeri
>

Please, use the attached 0.0.2 source as I fixed a bug.

Stefano

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