<![CDATA[How to capture Qml TextArea typing event?]]>Hi,
Anyone know how to capture textarea typing (start editing and editing) ? It has only editingFinished event .
Thanks!

]]>https://forum.qt.io/topic/72180/how-to-capture-qml-textarea-typing-eventRSS for NodeMon, 20 Apr 2026 23:15:34 GMTTue, 11 Oct 2016 12:17:43 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How to capture Qml TextArea typing event? on Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:34:03 GMT]]>@p3c0: thanks for your answer :)

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/353274https://forum.qt.io/post/353274Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:34:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to capture Qml TextArea typing event? on Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:09:23 GMT]]>@mrjj You should definitely :)

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/353239https://forum.qt.io/post/353239Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:09:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to capture Qml TextArea typing event? on Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:05:17 GMT]]>@p3c0
Aha, its not so magical, just a normal QObject :)
Thx. I should try QML at some time. seems to mix nicely with c++.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/353236https://forum.qt.io/post/353236Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:05:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to capture Qml TextArea typing event? on Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:54:11 GMT]]>@mrjj In the backend they are just Q_PROPERTY's where they have a setter, getter and a signal.
For eg.
https://code.woboq.org/qt5/qtdeclarative/src/quick/items/qquickitem.h.html#109

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/353233https://forum.qt.io/post/353233Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:54:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to capture Qml TextArea typing event? on Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:43:53 GMT]]>@p3c0
Ahh, that is smart !
So any property is automatically a signal.
so you could also hook up to OnwidthChanged and so on.
thank you :)

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/353228https://forum.qt.io/post/353228Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:43:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to capture Qml TextArea typing event? on Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:37:38 GMT]]>@mrjj In QML each property defined in a QML type has a signal and which have corresponding signal handler defined as on<Property>Changed.
More info here:
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtqml-syntax-signals.html#property-change-signal-handlers

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/353225https://forum.qt.io/post/353225Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:37:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to capture Qml TextArea typing event? on Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:31:02 GMT]]>@p3c0
Can i be a QML noob and ask why such signals is not listed?

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-controls-textarea.html

Where would i have seen that it has onTextChanged also ?

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/353223https://forum.qt.io/post/353223Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:31:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to capture Qml TextArea typing event? on Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:26:51 GMT]]>@lemta2000 onTextChanged handler is invoked when typing starts.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/353221https://forum.qt.io/post/353221Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:26:51 GMT