Help please. only letters and numbers in editbox

[titan_boy]

hello all,

can someone help me please with a problem? The problem is that i will make a edit box for only letters and numbers. not !~!@#$%^&* ect.

i know this:

theEdit = guiCreateEdit( 15, 326, 221, 33, "", false, Window["mainWindow"] )

local txt = guiGetText(theEdit)

local text = string.gsub(txt, "[^a-z]", "")

local text = string.gsub(txt, "[^0-9]", "")

but idk what i need to do with this.

help me please.

[Castillo]

That would remove letters and numbers from the string.

To remove all characters from a string use:

local myString = "Hello World ^^,-*/-/*/-,." -- Example 
myString:gsub ( "%p", "" ) 

You can use the event onClientGUIChanged to detect when the editbox text is changed, so you can remove the characters.

[titan_boy]

thank you Solidsnake14 but how do i put this in my script? like this?:

function acceptedNames(element) 
local myString = "Hello World ^^,-*/-/*/-,." 
myString:gsub ( "%p", "" ) 
end 
addEventHandler("onClientGUIChanged", theEdit, acceptedNames, false) 

can someone give my an example of the function?

[Castillo]

function acceptedNames ( element ) 
    local text = guiGetText ( element ):gsub ( "%p", "" ) 
    guiSetText ( element, text ) 
end 
addEventHandler ( "onClientGUIChanged", theEdit, acceptedNames, false ) 

[titan_boy]

thank you very much Soldidsnake14!!

its working!

[Castillo]

You're welcome.