I need to take action even before that, I need to implement a mask on the
field i.e. not even allow the user to enter certain chars rather than
letting him enter chars and then validate them.

Hundri


""Andreas Pohl"" <apohl@...> wrote in message
news:00ab01c20df3$d0edbad0$3202a8c0@pc1800...

> Take a look at TIB_Query.OnValidateField. Here you can check changes (if
> any) even before field's control is loosing focus or dataset is posted.
>
> Mit freundlichem Gruss & Best Regards
> Andreas Pohl
> ibp consult
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hundri Magusin" <hundri_106@...>
> Newsgroups: egroups.ibobjects
> To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 4:39 PM
> Subject: [IBO] how to find what user has entered so far in a grid?
>
>
> > I need to know what the user has entered so far in a grid's cell, i.e.
> prior
> > to even posting in the buffers so that I can use onIsValidChar as I

wish.

> I
> > cannot seem to find a property for this and onIsValidChar does not,
> > unfortunately, pass the latest value as a parameter.
>
>
>
>
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