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Hi All,

I'm trying to write code that gets an event any time the text in a WTextArea and a WLineEdit changes. I'm not content with waiting for the cursor to leave or enter to be pressed etc, as the content of the control must be written to the database as the control's content is changed.

WFormWidget has a changed() event, but this is only fired when the focus is lost etc, I need an event that should be fired any time text() will give a different result. For some time we have been using OnKeyUp events() but this has several problems:

1. we get many events when there is no change to the text, such as, pressing arrow keys and the like.
   
2. crucially, we don't get events when the field is pasted into using the right-click menu from the mouse.

In fact, there appears to be no event that will be triggered immediately after the right-click paste or right-click cut menu options are selected. I suggest changed() should be fired any time the result of text() has changed, however this might break code, so perhaps a new event can be created, though I can't think of a much better name than "changed". Perhaps a flag could be added something like setFineGrainedChangeEvents( bool ).

In the meantime can anyone suggest a workaround for this?