Yes, this will find its way into the autocomplete plugin. Paul Bakaus
actually implemtended something close in the UI 1.6 branch. Its just
not ready, yet.
Jörn
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:46 PM, mark.forster
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> i had exactly the same requirement
>
> My solution was this:
>
>
> adding an option called service like so:
>
> $(".TagField input").autocomplete(null, {
>
> max: 20,
> highlight: false,
> multiple: true,
> multipleSeparator: ",",
> scroll: true,
> scrollHeight: 200,
> selectFirst:false,
> minChars:1,
> service:getData
> });
>
> function getData(term,callback){
> var d=['mark','testies','tester','code','hello
> world','hello','world'];
>
> var str="";
> function eachD(i,n){
> str+=n+"\n";
> }
> $.each(d,eachD);
>
> callback(str);
> }
>
>
> ... and changing the autocomplete code like so...
>
>
> .....} else if((typeof options.service == "function")){
> options.service(lastWord(term),function(data){
> var parsed = options.parse && options.parse(data) ||
> parse(data);
> cache.add(term, parsed);
> success(term, parsed);
> });
>
> } else {
> // if we have a failure, we need to empty the list --
> this prevents
> the the [TAB] key from selecting the last successful match
> select.em.....
>
>
> the getData method has hard coded data at the minute as i havent
> written the service and at the time of writing i am just testing it.
>
> Having this flexibility allows me to abstract the data loading so i
> can pull it from any data source, any data format and pass it into the
> plugin in the format it requires
>
>
>
>
> Hope this helps
> On Jun 27, 8:16 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Jorn, great work onautocomplete.
>>
>> One thing I'd like to see is the ability to pull the data from a
>> function (instead of a static array or url). The function could
>> return the array instead, however it wanted to go get the data.
>>
>> Imagine:
>> autocomplete: function(urlOrDataOrFunction, options) {
>>
>> I tried to hack it in myself, making a function that returned an array
>> of objects,using typeof urlOrData == 'function', and then invoking the
>> function in the "function request(term, success, failure)" section,
>> but I failed. Pretty spectacularly. It seems like it should work,
>> but later "item" (for formatItem) comes back undefined. I'll keep
>> working at it.
>
