Hi all.
This may have been discussed before. I want to add a contextual menu to fields
in addition to the one the IDE is presenting, so I can add things like
validations while in edit mode. Is there a way to do this without overriding
the standard contextual menus? This can be filed as so obscure as not needing a
reply, but I have been thinking about a method for enabling validations for
fields in edit mode using a right click or something. I could hack it by
selecting the field and then running something in the message box, but wouldn't
that be a cool plugin?
For instance I have a notempty validation I use:
on notEmpty theField
-- returns false in the result if the field is empty, otherwise returns true
put true into theResult
if field theField is empty then
put "lbl" & char 4 to -1 of theField into theFieldLabel -- all my
fields start with "fld"
put the text of field theFieldLabel into theFieldName
answer theFieldName && "cannot be empty!"
select the text of field theField
put false into theResult
end if
return theResult
end notEmpty
If the field has a property called Validations, and notEmpty is one of the
lines of that property, then this command will be called. I have a concat
validation that will concatenate a list of fields and put it in another field,
I have a noupdate validation that deletes the key in an array before updating
the database, so that something like a password can only be created when
creating a new record, and requires another handler to change it.
I would love to be able to assign these validations with a right-click of the
mouse. I will share all my validations at some point.
Bob
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