prevent pasting to a control

[Ben]

Invoke node App.Clipboard.Read will let you look at what is in the clip board and then you decide if you will canel the clrt key or not.

Ben

[cbfsystems]

Excellent!  With some of the above suggestions, I have been able to get the control to behave the way that I want.  I do the following:

1.  On a Menu Selection? (App) event, if ItemTag=APP_PASTE, discard the event if the clipboard text is not acceptable.  The clipboard text is found using an invoke node as suggested elsewhere in this thread.

2. On a Shortcut Menu Activation? event, discard the event if the clipboard text is not acceptable.  A menu item of a default shortcut menu can't be discarded, so a custom shortcut menu had to be made.  I haven't completely implemented the custom menu yet, but I expect it to work.

3. Unacceptable single key presses are prevented using Key Down? and Key Repeat? events and discarding the events if the key presses are unacceptable.

Thanks for all the help with this.

[Ben]

Thanks for the summary and follow-up. This should help others witht esame Q in the future.

Here have some stars!

Ben