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How can I set text limit per byte size on Text widget? [message #800067]

Thu, 16 February 2012 16:42

Page Mising name

Messages: 31
Registered: July 2009

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Looks like Text::setTextLimit() does not block text per byte size, but by character size. This causes a problem for us with multi-byte languages. I am looking for a workaround how to block the input per byte size in Text widget.

The attached file is a simple example to demonstrate the issue.

With EN locale, the character size is same as byte size.
With JP locale, each JP char is two bytes.

Here is the output from the uploaded sample:
Locale is ja_JP Text is: <とうとして> textLength=5 byteSize=10
Locale is en_US Text is: <TestM> textLength=5 byteSize=5

I tested it on Win XP. [To use JP locale, need to use control panel to set the language.]

Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Page

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Re: How can I set text limit per byte size on Text widget? [message #809857 is a reply to message #800067]

Wed, 29 February 2012 11:05

Veselin Markov

Messages: 15
Registered: February 2012

Junior Member

Hello Page,

as I understand your question, you want that your text doesn't get larger than a certain size (in bytes). I suggest using a verify listener on your

org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Text

. Use

org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Text.addVerifyListener(VerifyListener listener)

and implement your own VerifyListener that checks the byte syze of the input text. Here is how one could look like:

private class NumberFieldVerifiyer implements VerifyListener {
	public void verifyText(VerifyEvent e) {
		String string = e.text;
		char[] chars = new char[string.length()];
		string.getChars(0, chars.length, chars, 0);
		for (int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++) {
			if (!('0' <= chars[i] && chars[i] <= '9')) {
				e.doit = false;
				return;
			}
		}
	}
}

Ofcourse you have to adapt it for your case.

Hope that helped.
Veselin

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