Hi Weller,

Thanks for the appreciation!

Handling that should work via an observer object - i.e. set up a separate observing page item (or scripted plug-in proxy like APIDTemplate provides), and set the event filter to 'subjectModified-usertyping' or 'subjectModified-text', and subject list to '*'.

Each time a cell (or anything else) is typed in, you'd get this event. Your script would still need to figure out whether the typing occurred in a table, what cell and so on - probably from app.selection - which would be an InsertionPoint at that time...

Does that help?

Cheers,

Kris

Hi WellerUK,

That is easy to accomplish, I think. Check the code sample below - I have a frame on the pasteboard, which has its list of subjects set to "*", and its event filter to "selected,subjectModified-usertyping" so it reacts to being selected, and on any of its subjects being typed into.

The script is:


if (theItem.eventCode == "selected")
{
  theItem.setDataStore("$DELAY_subjectModified-usertyping$",3000);
}
else
{
  alert("Typing");
}


So when I select the page item on the pasteboard it sets a predefined data store entry which is the delay value for the subjectModified-usertyping event on that page item. This way, if the user types away, nothing happens, until the user pauses for 3 or more seconds.

That should do the trick, I hope...

Cheers,

Kris