TextInput change event doesnt fire when changing text programmatically

[StuckInTheMiddle]

I'm still fairly new to Flex and event handling so hoping someone has come across a solution for this.

I have a following Flex 3 textinput

<mx:TextInput id="myName"  text="" change="stateChanged(event)" />

Which works fine when a user makes a change stateChanged event fires and is captured (i do some validation in there as the user types).

However myName.Text can also be updated via Code

myName.text = "something";

This doesnt fire the event I want to fire, is there a way to capture text changes that the application is doing as well as user edits?

Any assitance appreciated, I check the other events on the textinput, textarea and am open to using another control is it supports what i need.

A/


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