SCRIPTING: limit EditText to numbers?

[Dan Ebberts]

I don’t think so, unless you set up an onChanging() function (I’ve never tried it, so I don’tknow for sure) or add an event listener for keyup or keydown events to catch illegal characters as the come in.

That sounds pretty drastic though. I generally just take what the user has typed, try to convert it to an integer with parseInt(), and reject it if isNaN() comes back true.

Dan

[Barend Onneweer]

Too bad. Something like inpuType: integer would be an elegant solution. parseInt is correction after the fact whereas constraining the input on … ehm… input would be nice.

Oh well… I’ll stick with the parseInt for now… Thanks.

Raamw3rk – independent colourist and visual effects artist

[Barend Onneweer]

But I could of course do the parseInt upon onChange of the text field to catch issues before running through the rest of the script and letting the user adjust if necessary before hitting ‘Go’.

Just thinking out loud here.

Raamw3rk – independent colourist and visual effects artist

[Dan Ebberts]

Sounds like a workable compromise.

Dan

[Barend Onneweer]

Hah! That works exactly like I wanted… And with very little code… Upon onChange of the editText I did a parseInt and if NaN set the value to 0…

If I sound giddy with excitement with these small results: bear with me here… I started Lloyds FXPHD course a week and a half ago… and hadn’t ever written one line of Javascript before that. And now in the middle of my second script, fully automating my greenscreen workflow. Going a bit overboard even.

😉

Raamw3rk – independent colourist and visual effects artist