Case Conversions With The KeyPhysical Event

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 Case Conversions With The KeyPhysical Event Post ID #1416, 4 replies 3/16/2001 6:44:00 PM  
K Packard
Falls Church, Virginia USA
This should be an easy one but I have tried several things to accomplish this task. I am trying to have all data entries on a form convert to uppercase as the user keys each character. I accomplished this by using an eventinfo.vchar statement for each letter. Obviously, this is too much code but it works. I can use the "upper()" function on a pushbutton event or canDepart event to do this after the fact but I would really like to have this process occur as the user was typing. I also looked at the Format "cu" statement. Can anyone clue me in to the proper syntax and what event to place the code on. I am using Paradox 8. Thanks.

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 Re: Case Conversions With The KeyPhysical Event 3/21/2001 8:52:00 AM  
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Maybe I missed something here . . . but how about a picture on the form fields or on the table?
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 Re: Case Conversions With The KeyPhysical Event 3/17/2001 1:39:00 AM  
AIBreveleri
I think the best way to do this is to add this line to the PreFilter clause of the form's keyChar event:

eventInfo.setChar( upper( eventInfo.char() ) )

This forces all operator keyboarding on the form, except in response to a view(), to upper case. Does anyone remember using a TeleType ASR-33 printing teminal for a computer console?

-Al.
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 Re: Case Conversions With The KeyPhysical Event 3/19/2001 6:49:00 AM  
K Packard
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Thanks A. I. Breveleri! This was exactly the solution I was looking for. There is no way I could have guessed the syntax for this one. The text is now automatically converted to uppercase without any delay on the network.
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 Re: Case Conversions With The KeyPhysical Event 3/21/2001 9:00:00 AM  
Joe Ng
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I agree with Cheryl. Define the field's Picture property with *! in the table will store and display field values in upper case.
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