we don't have a universal field widget, and, the existing controls don't
make it easy to do things like this.
there are often ways to overcome, just like there are in c, but that
doesn't mean i prefer c
or swift
or java
or xojo
sometimes workarounds are a means to identify opportunities to improve
Also, and without trying to put too fine a point on it, I’d like to reiterate
that Livecode is much less like a furniture store, and more like an Ikea
furniture factory, where there are lots of different parts, and bits to hold
the furniture together, but theoretically you could make any kind of
It’s too specific. For instance I always format phone numbers nnn-nnn- xnnn
(the x is for extension). Some people bracket the area code with paras, some
need the country code, some want to prepend 1+ etc.
I was planning to have a format string of some sort, then follow that pattern
as the
Very useful to know. Thanks Dan
Mark
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> On Mar 6, 2024, at 7:13 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> it would be nice to have a universal field widget, and be able to have this
> sort of behavior be part of it...
>
>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 2:07 PM Bob Sneidar vi
it would be nice to have a universal field widget, and be able to have this
sort of behavior be part of it...
On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 2:07 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> That is damn handy. That could be massaged to work with a Livecode field
> too. I’m g
That is damn handy. That could be massaged to work with a Livecode field too.
I’m going to work on that.
Bob S
> On Mar 6, 2024, at 10:13 AM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Dan,
>
> Nice... thanks!
>
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdim...@everg
Dan,
Nice... thanks!
Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdim...@evergreeninfo.net
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From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
Of Dan Friedman via use-livecode
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2024 11:15 AM
To: How to use L
Panos,
Thank you for the suggestion! That worked out well! For anyone interested,
here’s the snippet for formatting a phone number as you type in a mobile native
field control:
//this assumes that the mobileControl type for Android is “multiline” and the
mobileSetKeyboardType has been set
