User Guide

TextField.onChanged 901
TextField.onChanged
Availability
Flash Player 6.
Usage
my_txt.onChanged = function(){
// your statements here
}
myListenerObj.onChanged = function(){
// your statements here
}
Parameters
None.
Returns
The instance name of the text field.
Description
Event handler/listener; invoked when the content of a text field changes. By default, it is
undefined; you can define it in a script.
A reference to the text field instance is passed as a parameter to the
onChanged handler. You can
capture this data by putting a parameter in the event handler method. For example, the following
code uses
textfield_txt as the parameter that is passed to the onChanged event handler. The
parameter is then used in a
trace() statement to send the instance name of the text field to the
Output panel:
this.createTextField("myInputText_txt", 99, 10, 10, 300, 20);
myInputText_txt.border = true;
myInputText_txt.type = "input";
myInputText_txt.onChanged = function(textfield_txt:TextField) {
trace("the value of "+textfield_txt._name+" was changed. New value is:
"+textfield_txt.text);
};
The onChanged handler is fired only when the change results from user interaction; for example,
when the user is typing something on the keyboard, changing something in the text field using
the mouse, or selecting a menu item. Programmatic changes to the text field do not trigger the
onChanged event because the code recognizes changes that are made to the text field.