keyPressEvent before character is there -TextBox

[tanteanni]

i am trying to implement a live search with a text box. i am triggering the search on KeyPressEvent. My Problem is, that the event is fired before the text is set. so on keyPressEvent i can't get the current text from textBox. Ho to solve this? Is there an event better suited for lifesearch?

[cruser]

Look at using the KeyUpEvent, that should work

[Jens]

Use KeyUpEvent/Handler instead of KeyPressEvent/Handler. Also you should build in a small timer so you do not fire server requests on every KeyUpEvent. So on each KeyUpEvent you schedule the same timer instance that should execute in the next 50ms (just an example). The timer then does the server search request. That way you will always ask the server for the search result 50ms after the last key has been typed. So it reduces the amount of server requests while typing in the textbox.

[tanteanni]

thx thats it (KeyUp  works fine). (in meantime i also tried keyDownEvent :-|)