[IGN-2441] Text Area Property Change not Firing with On-Screen Keyboard

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I've opened a ticket and awaiting a response, but I think I just found a bug with the Vision Text Area component. If I use a regular keyboard and update a value in a text area, my named query update binding works as expected, but if I have a touchscreen and use the on-screen keyboard to change the value, the binding never fires after pressing enter on the on-screen keyboard, and even after losing focus, it also never updates.

As a test, I put a propertyChange script on it also to just show a message box with the new value whenever the text property changes, and it does the same. It never fires with the on-screen keyboard (even after focus loss), but using a regular keyboard after losing focus, it fires.

Anyone else seen this? Any fixes or anything I'm missing while I wait on support?

Edit: Support came back with an internal bug ticket IGN-2441 which I tagged in the title now for reference, but they suggested trying to run my update to my database using the focusLost event, which is working as a workaround.

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It isn't just your case. It doesn't fire when a value is delivered by a binding, either. I'm not sure what version introduced it. Bindings to .text only get some updates.

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Just as a test, I bound a label text property to the text area's text property, and exactly as you described, my label showed blank even though my text area had a value from the binding. If I entered a new value using a regular keyboard and changed focus, then it updated the label, but the on-screen keyboard changes didn't cause the label to update either.

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The workaround I used was to another custom property, move the original .text binding to it, and bidirectionally bind from .text to .custom. Then did any other binding and propertyChange checking against .custom.

Not sure if that would fix the on-screen keyboard behavior.