Is there a way for TextField to update a `MutableState<String>` with new text ONLY when the te...

# compose

[Justin Xu]

Is there a way for TextField to update a MutableState<String> with new text ONLY when the text value changes AND when the user clicks off of the text box?

[Stylianos Gakis]

Sounds like you’re gonna have two sources of truth for that state then right? Because before they click outside those two states would not be the same.
Maybe try listening to the focus of the text field and update this second state of yours when the focus is dropped from that component.

[Justin Xu]

Right, but how do I track the focus of the text field

[Stylianos Gakis]

Dunno from the top of my head, but there seem to be docs like this https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/touch-input/focus or this https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/touch-input/focus/react-to-focus which may help you. Otherwise there’s definitely been discussions on focus around this slack channel, search around

[Justin Xu]

Awesome, thanks

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

Yea, something like

Modifier.onFocusChanged {
  if (!it.isFocused) {
    submittedText = text
  }
}