Don't raise TextChanged while continuous typing

Question

I have a textbox that has a fairly hefty _TextChanged event handler. Under normal typing condition the performance is okay, but it can noticeably lag when the u

Answer 1

I played with this for a while. To me this was the most elegant (simple) solution I could come up with:

    string mostRecentText = "";

    async void entry_textChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        //get the entered text
        string enteredText = (sender as Entry).Text;

        //set the instance variable for entered text
        mostRecentText = enteredText;

        //wait 1 second in case they keep typing
        await Task.Delay(1000);

        //if they didn't keep typing
        if (enteredText == mostRecentText)
        {
            //do what you were going to do
            doSomething(mostRecentText);
        }
    }