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ace editor change event and setvalue

I am listening on ACE editor's change event to handle with user's input while sometimes I will do setvalue() by js.

So is there a way to avoid the setvalue() triggering the change event?

Solution

  • There is no way to avoid change event. But because change event is fired synchronously, you can set a flag to not handle the events created by you. Something like

    var fromSetValue = false;
editor.on("change", function() {
    if (!fromSetValue) {
        // user input
    }
})

fromSetValue = true;
editor.setValue("hi")
fromSetValue = false;