What we have is this:
A search box:
________
Then we have a box where put in all of the results of the search goes:
**********************
* *
**********************
(The thing with the box is that, if there isn't anything inside the
search box, the results should show all available keywords. So the
search box is acting more like a filter i guess.)
Then in the box with all the search results, we want to be able to
click on a word and have it populate a multiple select box.
So whatever you click in the results box ends up in a multiselect
box. The multiselect boxes get saved on a receiving page.
The results box is really a list of metadata keywords. And the search
box really filters that stuff down. The user needs to be presented
with all options before filtering, which is different than how i've
used the ajax.autocompleter before.
I hope this makes sense.
And thanks for the help.
Mark
On May 23, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 11:54, Mark McCray wrote:
Actually,
here's what i'm trying to do:
I want the user to be able to type in some text in an input field and
i only want the ajax request to happen after the user has stopped
typing for 1 or two seconds. Kind of like how google suggest or
autocompleter works. I can't use the ajax autocompleter because we
have a specific requirement that makes the autocompleter not work for
us.
and what requirement might that be? I subclassed the autocompleter
to make it
handle the server returning an xml document instead of a bunch of
li tags...
if you can tell us what you need the autocompleter to do, perhaps
we can help
you do it.
the reason I ask this is because the autocompleter already has that
throttling
built in, so why reinvent the wheel? (although, if in the end you
really do
have to reinvent the wheel, just check out the autocompleter's code
and
you'll find a good example)
-Jeremy
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