Hi, How would you make a button event call a function which acts like a backspace keyboard event delete. I tried faking the dispatch keyboard event "keyup" "keydown" with keycode 8 and keynumber 8 without success. No other way than doing it by hand with begin and end select index plus substr ? I have a textinput i just want to add a ...
Hi folks, I've got a simple winform. In it has a single TextBox control. In that, i've wired up the KeyPress event. Why? I'm trying to capture everything the user types in that textbox. But, when they hit return or enter, i then grab everything they've typed and send it to a command parser to do stuff. I then display on the screen (in ...
I have a textbox which is extended by an Ajax Control Toolkit calendar. I want to make it so that the user cannot edit the textbox and will have to instead use the calendar extender for input. I have managed to block all keys except backspace! This is what I have so far: <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" onKeyPress="javascrip...
I need to parse a flat file which is containing backspace (^H) character delimiter between fields. I need to parse this file and insert into sql server 2005 tables.I tried to use bcp utility along with the format file but I wasn't able to specify the delimiter as backspace. The default one is tab (\t). There are several other delimiters ...
I need to parse a file using windows batch scripts and replace all occurences of backspace (^H) with any other delimiter like tab. I searched in several forums but couldn't find a proper solution. Any ideas are most welcome. ...
Has any one ever seen a backspace delimited flat file? My requirement is to parse such a file but I am not able to put a backspace character into a file to check if I am able to detect it. ...
I need to parse a backspace delimited flat file using sqlserver 2005 and update in some tables. What is the best way to go about it? ...
I have created a DIV with attribute contenteditable=true and appended children like "span" and "a" with attributes contenteditable=false. Wanted to test if the entire node be deleted with a single backspace and to my surprise Firefox couldnt delete the elements. Also this works as expected in all major desktop browsers except Firefox. An...
I am attempting to stop a backspace keydown event from being handled by browsers, I'm using the jquery library, so I need to get the original event, but on some browsers (firefox at least) I get an error when trying to set the original events keyCode = 0, it gives and error saying that only a getter exists for that property. function bl...
I've just noticed that DataGridViews have a default shortcut so that whenever you press "Ctrl + H", the DataGridView's editing control backspaces, and can delete your entire selection within the cell. This can get quite annoying since I want to open a Replace box whenever Ctrl H is pressed. Is there any way to stop the backspacing whil...
How do I disable the backspace button when input checkboxes are focused on in jQuery? When checkboxes are focused on and I press backspace (keycode=8) the browser thinks I'm trying to go back a page and uses backspace as a history.go(-1) command. ADDITION DETAILS--- I've added this--to no avail: $("div#types input").focus(function(){ ...
How do I disable backspace keystroke if anything other than 2 specific input fields are focused on using jquery? here is my current code (NOW INCLUDING 2 TEXTBOXES): $(document).keypress(function(e){ var elid = $(document.activeElement).attr('id'); if(e.keyCode === 8 && elid != 'textbox1' || elid != 'textbox2'){ return false;...
i wonder why backspace character in common linux terminals does not actually erase the characters, when printed (which normally works when typed).. this works as expected: $ echo -e "abc\b\b\bxyz" xyz (\b evaluates to backspace, can be inserted also as ctrl-v ctrl-h - rendered as ^H (0x08)) but when there are less characters after t...
I'm creating a little Java application which should have a progress indicator with percentages. In every loop it uses backspace \b to remove the displayed progress before displaying the next percentage. Here's a simplified example: public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { System.out.print("Progress: "); for (in...
the login box is in the header of the website, availalbe on all pages. I'm using a javascript : <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> history.forward(); Which solves the issue of the backspace in the login box. But while I'm browsing the rest of the website, I can use backspace to see the previous page, I'd ha...
I want to make a program that forces it's user to input text but doesn't allow him to erase any of it, what's a simple way of doing it in C? The only thing I've got is (c = getchar()) != EOF && c != '\b' which doesn't work. Any ideas? ...
Working on Java in a Windows-run computer lab. System.out.print ("Hello!"); System.out.print ("\b"); Prints Hello![] Where [] is a box, so as to signify a character the font doesn't support, or has an invalid ASCII value or something. This is something pretty primitive, and comes in handy to make fancy looking terminal applicat...
I've got a simple javascript keydown event coded via jquery. The event should just alert the key that is "down." This works for most keys but not the backspace key in Internet Explorer. I read that IE messes this up on the keypress event but was supposed to work for the keydown and keyup events. Is there anything I can do via jquery to ...
Hi guys, I have a textView with some text in it. I want to delete the last 4 characters and then add on some more text. I tried doing this. textViewObject.append("\b\b\b\b new text that I am adding"); But instead of the \b doing a backspace, they show up as little squares in the textfield. Can anyone help me out here? ...
I have noticed this bug when developing my flash application on a windows platform. If typing text in to a text box in a Flash swf running in Safari 5 browser on Windows then press backspace the browser will jump to the previous page in history rather than performing the function that backspace is supposed to - here is a link to another ...