Does this work better for you?
on keydown pKey
if the length of me < 9 and pKey is a number then
pass keydown
else
beep
end if
end keydown
command doHyphens
if not offset("-",me) then
put "-" after char 5 of me
put "-" after char 3 of me
end if
end doHyphens
on openfield
replace "-" with empty in me
end openfield
on closefield
doHyphens
end closefield
on exitfield
doHyphens
end exitfield
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I' surprised at how slow this is--I can type fast enough to foul it.
>
> American social security numbers have nine digits, with a dash after
> the third and fifth.
>
> I attached this to a field to handle it automatically
>
> on keyUp theKey
> if the length of me = 3 or the length of me=6 then put "-" after me
> if theKey is among the chars of "0123456789" then
> pass keyup
> else
> beep
> end if
>
> end keyUp
>
> If I blast a bunch of numbers on the keyboard at once, I get extra
> numbers before the hyphens: right now it shows 873124-6758021394
>
>
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