Is there a better way? checking user input to textField

[webdreamer]

Surely there must be a better way of checking wether the user has exceeded the amount of chars typed into the textField.

code:

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mc1.onEnterFrame = function(){

        // Display amount of characters being typed in the textField

        charField.text = msgField.length;

}if(charField.text>="255"){

    errorTxt.text="Character limit has been reached";



}

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[oldnewbie]

Why don't you limit it to start with? Sounds familiar? (actionscripts.org)

[webdreamer]

Yes oldnewbie i find cross forum posting gets quicker results

[oldnewbie]

And the good part about it, is that you can allways pretend in the other forum, that you may have solved the problem yourself, when it may have been answered or at least a solution hinted in the first forum...