Hi Adrian.
I'm constantly using the spell checker and I do not think I had this same problem. You could describe better? Maybe I can help.

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Enhancement # 2695698 (for internal tracking)

There currently is no event that gets dispatched when the text changes.

- Bruce, Adobe

Hi ftudor,

Unfortunately I cannot give you a timeline for when this feature will be available.  It likely will not be within the next 3 months.

Currently our top priority enhancements are:

1. Split out the UI code from the engine so that people can either write their own UI or have more flexibility in how they call the spelling engine.

2. Make it possible to integrate Squiggly with TLF (Text Layout Framework)

3. Add support for German and French.

I am not aware of a workaround, but maybe the community could help?

- Bruce, Adobe

I remember I tried also to use the textChanged of the internal TextField of the TextArea but for some reason it did not fit my needs.

In the end my solution was also to extend TextArea, but with a different approach:

First, I listen for the opening of the Player context menu, since I need to remember what was the selection in the TextArea at that point.

At this point I add other listenets for the selection of the custom items in the context menu (spelling suggestions).

Then I dispatch a custom event containing the spelling suggestion that was selected and I catch this and update my data model (replacing the old selected text with the new suggestion).

I would agree it's great to have community suggestions but this seems like it should be a core feature! Let's say you extend a TextInput component and want to enable spelling automatically and we put this custom component in a form. Usually you listen for the "change" event so you can update a model (some property), however, when you right click and pick a suggestion that "change" event does not fire which means the model didn't get updated correctly .... very bad ;(

So after researching this issue the best solution is....??