Display keyed entries

[van]

Hi

I am looking at creating a no.of buttons on a form, which when pressed will
simply display the pattern that has been keyd into a text box, I will then
manipulate this afterwards.

How can these buttons be setup to display only what has been keyed?
Thanks

 

[Rick B]

I don't think your question is clear enough to answer. Wouldn't you be able
to simply look at the text box and see what is in it? What do you mean by
"display only what has been keyed"? Are you saying that you want to compare
what was in the text box before any changes to what is in it after the
changes? If so, there is a way to grab the "old value" of a field and
compare it to the current "value".

Give us more details.

Thanks,

Rick B

 

[van]

Thanks for your reply.

Basically what I am saying is that a user will come along to the form, and
enter a 5 digit number via some buttons that will be placed on the form to
accommodate this. If you can imagine it will be the layout of a telephone
keypad 0-9. So, when they key this in, it will appear in a text box for
visual verification.

the text box will then populate some details about that person.

It is only the first part of this where the digits are displayed on screen
that I am having difficulty to know what I should do with it.

Thanks

 

[Rick B]

The only way I could think to do this would be to add an event to the
"click" of each button like...

[SomeField]=[SomeField]&"1"

or

[SomeField]-[SomeField]&"2"



Hope that helps.

Rick B