How about this as a suggestion, bearing in mind I dont know your UI at all...
very often in these situations, there are 5 or 6 most likely options, so provide a set of buttons for these options , mebbe with flags, then have a drop-down with all availible countriers you ship to... On 11/18/05, Toon Van de Putte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had thought of something like this. A sort of autocomplete. But the > problem is that people with lots of different native languages are going to > be using this, and they might not always know the spelling of their country > name in English. They'd only have to know the first letter, but in the case > of Finland (Suomi) that would already create a problem. > > I like the idea of giving, say, the twenty most likely countries upfront, > and putting the rest in some sort of alphabetical system. > > Organising all the countries per continent/area is unfeasible, since i only > have an alphabetical list. The client wants *all* countries in there, but I > doubt very much that anyone outside Europe (or outside Germany, France, > Holland, Belgium, Italy, Spain and the UK) will ever place an order. So I'd > prefer not to spend too much time picking central African countries from an > alphabetical list ;-) > > On 11/18/05, eric dolecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > how about keyboard press a letter, and matching country names fly in & you > > select one to autocomplete > > > > the comboBox does allow you to press a letter to scroll down to 1st match > > too I think. > > > > > -- > Toon Van de Putte > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
