Also, it seems that changing the listener to listen for the undocumented 'textChanged' event gets the desired behaviour.
Maybe it's just that the docs need updating? Cheers Marty --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "marty.pitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > Can someone please verify my understanding of this correctly. > > I believe that the event is not firing on the deletion of text, as the > docs suggest it will. > > According to the docs this event is supposed to fire: > "when the user types, deletes, or pastes text into the control. " > > > But, running the following simple chunk'o'code, and deleting text, > shows the event doesn't fire on either backspace or delete: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; > layout="absolute"> > <mx:TextArea textInput="trace('textInput fired')" /> > </mx:Application> > > I had a look at the code, and TextArea is simply rebroadcasting the > event from textField, which we can't see as it's source is not available. > > If someone can confirm that this is a bug, I'll post it in the bug > forums. (I don't suppose that it'll be fixed before release now though?) > > Cheers > > Marty >
