Re: Text field lengths and external DataBases.

["Roger Vicker, CCP" <rvicker@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, another VB developer.

That change event is exactly what I went looking for at first and was 
very disappointed to never find. Now for a web client there are lots of 
useful settings, they just don't work for the Notes client :-(

Roger Vicker, CCP

On 1/23/2003 4:17 PM, Vern Hamberg wrote:

> I've never done Domino development, but some VB work. Is there a 
> Change event in Domino? In VB, at least, this can be used for 
> validation - keep a count of characters every time the contents 
> changes. Kludgy but might work.
>
> HTH
>
> Vern
>
> At 03:46 PM 1/23/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>
> > Rob,
> >
> > I think what Roger is really looking for is that the field validation be
> > done as the user types in the field. Sure the iSeries can do the
> > validation, but I think that is too late for what he is looking to 
> > achieve.
> >
> > It would be great if Lotus would add field validation to the Designer
> > client.  So, if I would add a field to a Form, the properties dialog 
> > would
> > have another tab for validation.  On that tab I could set-up validation
> > based on the field type.  Things like max length for text fields or 
> > min and
> > max numbers.  I think the enablement of the events in Notes 6 will 
> > solve a
> > lot of the validation problems most people have though.
> >
> > -- Scott Johnson
>
>
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