Flash: addEventListener not detecting Paste events in Input Text boxes

Question

I'm new to Flash, and I can't seem to do this simple action.

(I'm using ActionScript 3.0)

I created an input text box in my editor. The instance name is "test". In my Action editor I have this:

import flash.events.Event;
this.test.addEventListener(Event.PASTE, pasteHandler);

function pasteHandler(e:Event)
{
    trace("blaaaaaaaaaagh");
}

When I run it, it doesn't detect any of my paste events, whether I'm doing Ctrl+V or right-click+paste. If I use another event, like MouseEvent.CLICK, it detects it fine. In fact, I don't think any Event.XXX events (like COPY, INIT, etc.) are detected (at least from the ones I tried). All of the MouseEvent and KeyboardEvent events seem to work fine.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

TextField objects do not dispatch clear, copy, cut, paste, or selectAll events. Sorry for the bad news!

Tyler.

Answer 2

I'd listen for Event.CHANGE since pasting is going to change the field.

Answer 3

The solution to this is to listen for TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT and prevent the default behavior:

textField.addEventListener(TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT, onTextInput );

function onTextInput( e:TextEvent ) : void
{
    // this takes place of PASTE because Event.PASTE is not triggered on a textfield
    var t:TextField = TextField( e.currentTarget );
    t.replaceSelectedText( e.text );
    e.preventDefault();
}