Show a character count of a field?

[atlzbest]

Guys,

I am having a brain freeze. I'm trying a simple thing as counting the number of characters in a field and displaying it..i've got FM Pro 10 Advanced, ive got a onKeyStroke trigger that fires the script..

the layout has 6-10 fields so i cant name the field,

ive tried

Length ( Get (ActiveFieldContents) ) ..no good

Length ( GetAsText (ActiveFieldContents) ) ..no good

and then assigning the value to

could someone tell what im missing here...

update: ok i solved that part...it was getting it correctly, i was using Set field to display it...changed it to InsertCalculatedResult and that works...but now i have another issue...if i press del, space, it fires off which makes sense but its getting in the way of just simply typing, editing in the field...

is there a cleaner approach where as the user is typing, a running character count is displayed...this is vital to the business.

thanks!

Edited June 26, 2009 by Guest

[comment]

Why don't you trigger the script OnObjectModify, and make it:

Set Field [ DisplayField ; Length ( Get (ActiveFieldContents) ) ]

[atlzbest]

that actually did the trick...it works perfectly on onObjectModify

the problem i am having now is how to put the focus back to the field where i was typing

so assuming i was typing in a field called Title and the character count was being displayed in Counter...Counter gets populated but it also steals the focus...i dont have named Layout Objects so i cannot use Go to Object

and that is not an option since i have approx 35 layouts where i need to implement this...none have named layout objects thanks to the previous developer..

is there any other way to give back the focus to the active field?

[comment]

Set Field [] does not change the focus.

[atlzbest]

wow..that was it...thanks a million!