Can you check if a text entry box has an 'incorrect' character?

Hi James

see if the attached sample file helps.

Thanks Wendy, but unfortunately that's not quite what I'm looking for.

I'm hoping to let the user type in whatever time they want - but then flag up an error if they've formatted the time incorrectly - i.e. if they've entered any other characters apart from a number or a colon.

I think javascript is pretty much your solution, if you want to allow them to enter any time, unless you want to write 2 triggers for every single minute in the day.

Thanks for the reply, Walt.

Would you be able to point me in the direction I might need to go down for this?

At the point you want to evaluate the entry, initiate a trigger to execute javascript. Start it like this:

var player = GetPlayer();
var text = player.GetVar("TextEntry");

Where TextEntry is the name in SL of the variable where you store their entry, and text is the variable js uses.

Then it's pretty easy in js to check if text contains any characters outside of 0-9 and :

If you don't know how, go to w3schools.com and click on learn Javascript. The advantage of this site is that they have a sandbox, where you can practice you script until it runs the way you want. Then copy it and put it into your trigger.

You end up passing the value back to SL with :

player.SetVar("result",testResult);

where result is the name of the variable in LS that catches the data, and testResult is the variable in js that contains the data to pass. You could pass a simple true or false, or you could get fancy and pass the illegal characters and report as "Please enter a time without using %result% in the time"