QPlainTextEdit

[rekosko]

I am sorry for putting in so many tickets on xTuple 5 but we have a lot of customization to do.

I created a QPlainTextEdit box in the Screen Editor and want to limit the text to digits and decimals only.

So I select the ImhFormattedNumbersOnly box and save to database and file.
Curiously , the ImhNone is also selected and can not be un selected.

Reviewing the file showed that the ImhFormattedNumbersOnly was not added to the property, only the ImhNone.

So I change the xml in the file to ImhFormattedNumbersOnly and import and Property Editor has not changed.

But the code in the uiform table shows ImhFormattedNumbersOnly.

So I test the screen and I can enter letters in the textbox

So in my script I add

policy.inputMethodHints = 8192; // set to numbers only, I think

and save and test and I still can add letters to the QPlainTextEdit box

is this a known bug and is there a workaround?

Thank you

[anderson]

Why are you using the PlainTextEdit widget? That is typically used for multi-line text input (i.e. notes).

There are a few X widgets which we have provided that give you enhanced functionality.

I would use something like XLineEdit for numerical entry. You can then define it as a numbers only by setting a validator:
_mywidget.setValidator(mainwindow.qtyVal());

This restricts entry of data to predefined numerical values. In the above example I have restricted the numbers to the Quantity validator as defined in System->Settings->Locale. You can see a bunch of numeric validators of different decimal precision in the Locale settings. Or you can define your own validator if those patterns do not fit.

[rekosko]

Ok thank you once again Anderson

I will go to the line edit