Prevent users from pasting text into a field

[Proct0r]

Hi all,

Hoping somebody will have a cunning way to prevent anything from happening when a user presses Ctr+V in a field and maybe also the right-click context menu paste too.

Guessing it will having something to do with a key press message but not sure which is the most appropriate to use, any help would be appreciated thanks!

[Klaus]

Hi Proct0r,

you can add a "dummy" PASTEKEY handler to the field:

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on pastekey
   ## NADA!
   ## If you do not:-> pass pastekey
   ## then nothing will happen and that's what we want!
end pastekey

Hint:
From the dictionary about "pastekey":
...
Comments:
The LiveCode development environment traps the pasteKey message, unless "Suspend LiveCode UI" is turned on in the Development menu.
This means that the pasteKey message is not received by a stack if it's running in the development environment.
...

Best

Klaus

[Proct0r]

Awesome, thanks for your help