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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: ScrappyScooter on December 29, 2008, 09:33:48 PM

Title: UserDRO Alpha-Numeric input
Post by: ScrappyScooter on December 29, 2008, 09:33:48 PM

Can a UserDRO be set up to accept numbers and letters (or just letters)?

I notice there is a "string format" in Screen Designer for the DROs.
Is there a way to set that to letters?

Thanks
Scrappy

Title: Re: UserDRO Alpha-Numeric input
Post by: jimpinder on December 30, 2008, 04:39:33 AM

Not that I know of - the DRO is supposed to emulate a Digital readout -  i.e. numbers. There should be no reason why it could not display letters, but I can only assume that they were only equipped with numbers and a full stop, the other characters will be ******