How to add bullet on every enter event in text field

[Former Community Member]

Hello, Can someone please point me in the right direction. I am trying to add a bullet every time someone presses enter on the keyboard. this is within a textfield.



Thank you,

Howard

[Former Community Member]

Okay instead of automatically entering a bullet, can someone help me create a button that (1) starts a new line and (2) adds a "*" at the beginning of the line. There are several multi-line textfields so the button would have to be associated with the current textfield focus.



Thank you in advance,

Howard

[Former Community Member]

Hello Howard,



Try Using this line in the 'Exit' event of the Text Field you want to add bullet in;



this.rawValue = " * " + "" + this.rawValue;



I'm also a new user of LiveCycle, so I just hope this helps you.



Please do reply me in either case. Ofcourse my confident over LiveCycle will increase.



Thanx,

YD

[tgsoft]

Hi



I would solve it by a script that checks your multiline field for newlines by ENTER key and insert "* " in the beginning of each line.



1) create a multiline field in your form

2) insert the script below in exit event... and enjoy the magic ;)

just 7 lines of code without comments. The split function is very powerful, I really use it alot now!



===== script start =====

//value of the field to insert "* " in each line

var sFldValue = this.rawValue;

//you split text in field for each '\r' = newLines made with enter

var tmpFldArray = sFldValue.split("\r");

//tmp string you concat your out text in

var sOutStr = "";



//for each line of text insert '* ' in beginning

for(var i = 0; i < tmpFldArray.length; i++){



//need to add '\r' because split removed it

sOutStr += "* " + tmpFldArray[i] + "\r";

}



//return manipulated string to your field

this.rawValue = sOutStr;

===== script end =====



/Thomas Groenbaek

Jyske Bank

Denmark