RE: [Pythoncard-users] making components less restrictive about attributes

[Steve H. <sh...@ho...>]

[Kevin]
> > From: ralph heimburger
> >
> > Speaking of attributes, TextField esp. is there a way to force
> > the field to be UPPERCASE?
> >
> > In DataFlex all we needed to do was add {CAPSLOCK} to the
> entry field.
>
> There is no attribute for the TextField to force text to be
> UPPERCASE. If
> you need that capability a lot you would probably be best off
> creating a
> subclass of the TextField component to give you that
> functionality. Is this
> a capability a lot of people need for dealing with databases?
>
I'd say it's much more usual simply to convert mixed-case inputs to all
upper after input if all upper is a database requirement.

[how to force upper-case ...]
>
> Finally, if you just want to make sure the text is uppercase
> before you plug
> it into a database or wherever you're going to use the text,
> you can do the
> upper() conversion in your code (e.g.
> self.components.fld.text.upper() ) and
> not worry about what the user sees.
>
Yup.

regards
 Steve