Comments on: Restricting which characters a user can type into a TextInput component in Flash using ActionScript 3.0 http://actionscriptexamples.com/2008/12/22/restricting-which-characters-a-user-can-type-into-a-textinput-component-in-flash-using-actionscript-30/ A bunch of ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0 examples* Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:13:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: fernando http://actionscriptexamples.com/2008/12/22/restricting-which-characters-a-user-can-type-into-a-textinput-component-in-flash-using-actionscript-30/comment-page-1/#comment-606 fernando Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:06:44 +0000 http://actionscriptexamples.com/?p=293#comment-606 hi, I`m doing a project for the uni and I need to restrict fields just for letters in these fields. The code below show how I`m doing. This is not working. I`d like to know what is missing. Thanks if (checkBox.selected==true) { chvalue_txt.text=newAmount.toFixed(2); interestPayable = (newAmount + loanAmount)* loanTerm * rateA; totalPayable = (newAmount + loanAmount + interestPayable); mnthlyPayment = totalPayable/(loanTerm * 12); firstName=(firstName_txt.text); firstName_txt.restrict="A-z"; surName=(surName_txt.text); surName_txt.restrict="A-z"; rate_txt.text=rate.toFixed(2); interestPayable_txt.text="£ "+interestPayable.toFixed(2); totalPayable_txt.text="£ "+totalPayable.toFixed(2); mnthlyPayment_txt.text="£ "+mnthlyPayment.toFixed(2); } else if (checkBox.selected==false) { chvalue_txt.text=""; } trace(checkbox); } hi, I`m doing a project for the uni and I need to restrict fields just for letters in these fields.
The code below show how I`m doing. This is not working. I`d like to know what is missing.
Thanks

if (checkBox.selected==true) {
chvalue_txt.text=newAmount.toFixed(2);
interestPayable = (newAmount + loanAmount)* loanTerm * rateA;
totalPayable = (newAmount + loanAmount + interestPayable);
mnthlyPayment = totalPayable/(loanTerm * 12);
firstName=(firstName_txt.text);
firstName_txt.restrict=”A-z”;
surName=(surName_txt.text);
surName_txt.restrict=”A-z”;
rate_txt.text=rate.toFixed(2);
interestPayable_txt.text=”£ “+interestPayable.toFixed(2);
totalPayable_txt.text=”£ “+totalPayable.toFixed(2);
mnthlyPayment_txt.text=”£ “+mnthlyPayment.toFixed(2);
} else if (checkBox.selected==false) {
chvalue_txt.text=”";
}
trace(checkbox);
}

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