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Flex : button acting like a backspace

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 ...

Not sure how to get the 'final' output from a WinForm KeyPress event.

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 ...

Disable backspace in textbox via javascript

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...

bcp and backspace (^H) delimiter

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 ...

find and replace backspace in a file with tab using windows batch script

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. ...

Backspace delimited flat files

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. ...

Parsing backspace delimted text files using sqlserver 2005

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? ...

Backspace doesn't delete inner html tags of a contenteditable DIV in Firefox

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...

stopping backspace on multiple browsers using jQuery

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...

How do you disable a DataGridView's keyboard shorcuts?

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 backspace when input checkboxes are focused on in jQuery?

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 to disable backspace if anything other than input field is focused on using jquery

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;...

backspace character wiredness

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...

How to get backspace \b to work in Eclipse's console?

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...

How can I prevent Backspace from taking me back to the previous page while I use the login box.

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...

Ignore backspace key from stdin

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? ...

"\b" in Java - Windows implemented

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...

How do I capture the backspace key in IE8 with jquery?

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 ...

How do you do a backspace escape character in Android?

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? ...

Windows Safari 5 bug when using backspace in a Flash web application

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 ...