Self Awareness

[Anuviel]

Is there a way to make a field dynamically self aware? Like displaying how many characters is being typed into a field without having to commit the record first or stopping the user from typing more characters then allowed under field options without having to commit the record?

Pretty much like a web form field where one cannot type in more characters then allowed.

[mr_vodka]

Use a web form??

There could be the possiblity of using an event trigger but there would be tons of flashing.

[Anuviel]

Thanks. I'm just gonna give up on this small project and will make it in Excel.