2 tricky questions
2 tricky questions
- Subject: 2 tricky questions
- From: Brian Christmas <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 19:59:26 +1000
G’day scripters
Two questions, if you don’t mind.
Question 1. I’m trying to make life easier for my Application users entering
a 28 digit password, broken into 4 groups.
I’ve created a window with 28 text fields, of 4 groups, each field of which
will allow the entry of 1 digit.
I can start at the leftmost field, but want to move to the next right after
‘return’. I’ve assigned every field a missing value property, Entry1, Entry2,
Entry3, etc through to Entry28. For some reason, I cannot finf any way of
actually naming them. Seems to be missing.
However, I’m trying to retrive the value of the Referncing Outlet, so I can get
the numeric value on the end, and add 1 and move to the next field.
Never had to do it before, and cannot work out how.
‘Name’ does not work. Any thoughts, or suggested changes to methods used?
on checkthecode2:sender
set y to sender
set c to y's stringValue() as text
if (count of characters of c) > 1 then set y's stringValue() to
character 1 of c
say 3
set n to y's name as text — Naturally fails
say 3.1
tell application "System Events" to display dialog n
say 4
set nn to characters 6 through -1 of n as text as integer
say nn
if nn as integer < 28 then
say 6
makeFirstResponder_(text field("Entry" & ((nn as
integer) + 1)))
end if
end checkthecode2:
Question 2. with the entries, I’m restricting each field to one digit, but is
there any way of automatically moving to the next text field once one number is
entered? AND, could I still select and edit that number? Tall order I think,
but I know some App distributors manage it somehow.
Thanks for reading, and why can’t I simply set a name for the text boxes?
Nothing showing! Do I need to assign each one a named property? Still can’t
assign to a name! And Titles display in the fields!
Regards
Santa
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