Trying to increment counter after five seconds if there is text in a window

Question

I am trying to increment a counter by one digit if a window (called searchItem_txt) contains text for more than five seconds. The code below activates the counter after five seconds but it keeps on incrementing until the count has reached 63. Any suggestions for fixing this code would be much appreciated. Thanks.

var SearchItemTimer:Timer = new Timer(5000, 1);
SearchItemTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, CountOneClearWindow);

function CountOneClearWindow(event:TimerEvent):void
{
    counter = counter + 1;
    customerCount_txt.text = String(counter);
    searchItem_txt.text = ("");
}

if (searchItem_txt.text != "")
{
SearchItemTimer.start();
}

Andrei1-bKoviI · Answer

I am still not sure what you are trying to do but try the following:

import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.TextEvent;
import flash.text.TextField;
var counter:int = 0;
// listen to field change
searchItem_txt.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, onInputChange);
// variable names should start with lower case
// because by conventions classes start with upper case
var searchItemTimer:Timer = new Timer(5000, 1);
searchItemTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, CountOneClearWindow);

function CountOneClearWindow(e:TimerEvent):void
{
    counter++;
    customerCount_txt.text = String(counter);
    searchItem_txt.text = ("");
}

function onInputChange(e:Event):void {
     if (searchItem_txt.text != "") searchItemTimer.start();
}

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