Re: Detecting a full form FIELD

[Mike Aubury]

The obvious question there - is "how" to detect that.

On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 at 01:27, Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 12:37:06PM +0100, Mike Aubury wrote:
> Is there any field option, or way to detect when a field becomes full and
> stop accepting further input.

Not directly, but I think that you could check before passing a printable
character (not an editing control) to form_driver if it would overwrite
existing text.

> At the minute, when I get to the end of the field, the behaviour i'm seeing
> has the last character in the field overwritten by the new character when I
> call form_driver, I can't seem to find a setting to say ignore further
> characters it when full, or a reliable way of detecting when a field is
> already full to stop me calling form_driver.
>
> Any help would be appreciated!

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