questions about TextEvent

I want the "end result" of a user entering text but the TextEvent fires after each character is entered....is there a way to get it to wait until after the last character is entered? the main problem is that it's always one character behind, so if I've entered:

"Jason"

my last entry reflects:

"Jaso"

obviously that's not what I want!

is there a different property or method that will give me what I want? please advise, thx!

How do you mean finished? Does the user have to hit enter afterward, or can they just stop typing, or what?

Here's a technique that I've used before.

Code:

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var textTimer:Timer = new Timer(100, 1);
tf.addEventListener(TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT, resetTimer);
textTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, doText);

function resetTimer(event:TextEvent):void{
  textTimer.reset();
  textTimer.start();
}

function doText(event:TimerEvent):void{
  //do stuff in here.
}

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This basically waits until 100ms after the user stops typing to call doText. Depending on your user you may want to raise or lower the time.

that's a good technique, thx....I'm surprised there's not more "built-in" ways to support this though!