Cannot get _type to work

Keith4

Hello... I'm using buld 2011-07-19 with IE8 on Windows 7 Pro. We have several numeric fields on our website that have the following validations:

1. Cannot enter alpha characters except b (for billions) and m (millions)
2. Cannot enter 'special' characters like !@#$

There is no error displayed in the UI to key on, otherwise I would have asserted on that.

When I try to use _type to insert one of the disallowed characters:

_popup("WindowName")._type(_textbox("FieldName"), "a");

...nothing is entered as expected. However, when I try and use _type to insert a valid character or number, that doesn't insert anything either, so something else is going on here, right?

I've also tried _keyDown:

_popup("WindowName")._keyDown(_textbox("FieldName"), 'a');

...with the same result.

When I use 'Evaluate expression' to perform these in the Sahi Controller, the response is 'undefined'.

If I use _keyPress or _setValue:

_popup("WindowName")._keyPress(_textbox("FieldName"), 'a');

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_popup("WindowName")._setValue(_textbox("FieldName"), "a");

...the value is entered into the field, but this is not desirable since there is no UI validation/error that appears. (When the page is saved an error occurs but that's a different validation for the field type in the database.)

Any suggestions?

Thanks