[Jprogramming] Re: event on change text

[Mark D. Niemiec]

"tom arneson" <thomasarneson at comcast.net> wrote:
> I don't think there is an on change event in J, but there should be.
>
> Tom Arneson
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> [mailto:programming-bounces at jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Nikitin
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 18:12
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> Subject: [Jprogramming] event on change text
>
> Hi,
>
> What is the name of event that is sent when user changes contents of a 
> textbox?
> I am trying to write a procedure that recalculates result as user is typing 
> input, but cannot find a message name for that.
>
> Andrew.

I have found this cumbersome, but the way I have worked around it
is to have the user press ENTER on the field, which generates
a ..._button event for that fields, at which point I examine the
global variable associated with the control to read the changed text.

-- Mark D. Niemiec <mniemiec at interserv.com>