Is this better than using onKeyUp() ? What are the pros/cons?
-Dave
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Jason Essington
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> That's correct, onChange fires after the text box looses focus, but
> you can listen to onkeypress. onKeypress is fired before the text box
> is updated allowing you to cancel the keypress if desired. The trick
> is to use DeferredCommand.addCommand() to handle the text.
>
> public void onKeyPress(Widget sender, char keyCode, int modifiers){
> // check if the keycode is something you are concerned about
> DeferredCommand.addCommand(new Command(){
> public void execute(){
> // read the updated text in the textbox now.
> }
> });
> }
>
> -jason
>
> On Dec 10, 2008, at 5:50 PM, dhoffer wrote:
>
>>
>> Does anyone know how to configure GWT's TextBox so I can be notified
>> when its contents changes?
>>
>> I have just found out that addChangeListener does not work because it
>> only gets fired when the user leaves the text box.
>>
>> Also addKeyboardListener does not do what I need because this is fired
>> BEFORE the contents of the text box have been changed/updated (so
>> calling getText() returns the previous text).
>> >
>
>
> >
>
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