watch("text")

[Jayhoo]

watch causes text field to be undefined
The code below executres and traces out updated when mouseDown Clicked.
But text property displays undefined. (N.B. aTB is a dynamic text field on the stage)

Comment the watch out and text displays fine...... ?

Anyone had same or similar issue? As seems a bit odd that you can watch the property but it affects its value!!!

traceME=function()
{
	trace("updated")
}


aTB.watch("text",traceME)

onMouseDown=function()
{
	aTB.text="hello"
}

Any ideas or pointers appreciated.

Cheers
Jon

[dudeqwerty]

[Edit] what a load of rubbish lol.

here you go, it was just a matter of getting the callbackfunction right:

function traceMe(prop, oldVal, newVal) {
	if (newVal != oldVal) {
		trace("editied");
	}
	return newVal;
}
aTB.watch("text", traceMe);
onMouseDown = function () {
	aTB.text = "hello";
};

HTH,

zlatan

[Jayhoo]

Hi Thanks for the reply.

Why does it trigger then if it is not part of the Textfiled class? Also is the textfield class not a base Object extended class ? (i may be wrong here?)

Cheers
Jon

[dudeqwerty]

i forgot the textfield class extends object, thats why i edited my post

[Jayhoo]

thanks for that. i see this in the help files now. Its a bit of an odd implementation i think as i may want to update something and do something else when it is changed...without tying this change to updating the property...if that makes sense?

Thanks for your help though

Jon