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Answer 1

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The onchange event only fires if the user changes the value of the input. It isn't supposed to fire if the input is changed programmaticly.

Call the function from whatever function sets the value instead.

David Dorward 2010-09-22 21:34:40

I CAN'T. I do not know when I will get the answer and if I call the function inside the bucle it will call the google's API before it get the first answer

Eureka 2010-09-22 21:49:37

How is it setting the value of the input if it doesn't wait until the result comes back?

David Dorward 2010-09-22 21:51:37

google.language.translate(text, "en", "fr", function(result) { document.getElementById('translation').value = result.translation;});

Eureka 2010-09-22 21:54:09

Js does this line and then continues with the next lines without the answer. Then later when the answer is given magically this line to set the value works.

Eureka 2010-09-22 21:55:29

Well yes. It's a callback, a common pattern in event driven programming (which most JS is). You pass a function as an argument. That function is called when the data comes back. **Do the work in that function**

David Dorward 2010-09-22 21:59:05

Oh damm. Ok you're correct. I tried this before but different because the first time I do a translation inside this translation call and the results weren't good. Thank you very, very much. You got the answer to my question :)

Eureka 2010-09-22 22:12:02

Answer 2

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The onchange event is designed to fire when the user (and only the user) changes the value and for that reason it is fired only after the value was changed AND field lost focus.

Ivan Ferić 2010-09-22 21:38:19

Is there someone to be fired only after change the value but not lost focus?

Eureka 2010-09-22 21:50:15

Not that I know of. Maybe you could focus on something other than onchanged event for text input. Does the function that changes your text input do anything else? For example, maybe it calls submit form - if so you could listen to onsubmit event of the form element.

Ivan Ferić 2010-09-22 21:58:10

The problem is that if I write some code to change something more it will be done before the text is written in the text box. Sounds absurd but...

Eureka 2010-09-22 22:05:11

Answer 3

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Helpful Starters and that Bucle you speak of

You should look at the onkeyup or onblur.
If the input value is being set by JavaScript, then why not call the event after setting it?

I have no idea what a bucle is.
My best guess: it is Spanish for 'loop'

vol7ron 2010-09-22 21:55:38

Opsss, sorry my mistake. Yeah you're correct, it's loop.

Eureka 2010-09-22 22:03:01

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