event.oldText

Overview

The characters present in the TextField or TextBox before any new characters were typed for the event.

Gotchas

• This property is only available during the "editing" phase of userInput events.

• This property is only available on devices, not in the Corona Simulator.

Example

local defaultField

local function textListener( event )
    if ( event.phase == "editing" ) then
        print( event.oldText )
    end
end

defaultField = native.newTextField( 150, 150, 180, 30 )
defaultField:addEventListener( "userInput", textListener )