I have a patch to replace the searchable select implementation with select2 which seems to work well, but still needs comprehensive testing. I think it may address this problem. If anyone is interested in trying it:
https://bitbucket.org/james_taylor/james-galaxy-central-patches/src/b70fa48058f60c88dff0f29a084ee8b0876d033a/select2-for-big-selects -- James Taylor, Assistant Professor, Biology/CS, Emory University On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.c...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Luobin Yang <yangl...@isu.edu> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a 'select' tag in a tool's XML file, ... when the number of options >> exceeds 20, then drop down menu of the web interface displays "Click to >> Select or Search" ... Why the behavior changed when there are 20 options >> or more for a drop down menu? >> >> Thanks, >> Luobin > > The drop down list becomes very hard to use with lots of entries (for > example we have lots of local BLAST databases offered to the user), > and in that situation the search works really well. > > So for most cases, the search system is much more user friendly. > > You have a special case wanting a blank entry in the list, there may > be a better way to handle that. One idea might be to use a caption > like <DEFAULT> instead of an empty string? > > Peter > ___________________________________________________________ > Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" > in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this > and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: > > http://lists.bx.psu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/
