I'd add the maxResults logic in the listener. Also for minSearchCharacters, see http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Ajax.Autocompleter and tacos Autocompleter 'options' parameter. You can have options="literal:{minChars:3}" added
>From Pedro Viegas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Guess so, but it's a little scary. Not to use all the time at least, if it > was a large list, it would be very expensive and slow to pull all the items > to show. > I think this would be of interest but some security features would have to > be in place. > I'm building a little component library of my own, and the Autocompleter > shold indeed be extended witch I plan to do. > I think a MaxResults is very handy. Is this situation there would be no > problem with result size. It would be truncated to the MaxResults. > Also a MinSearchCharacters would be helpfull. In say a large client list > finding something with the letter "a" would probably return 90% of the > results. Normally someone trying to select a record types at least 2 or 3 > characters and this way a large and not needed search would be avoided. > > The MaxResults could be added in the listener. > The button you mention, could also be improvised by invoking the JS that the > onChange is associated to. > The MinSearchCharacters would also mean intercepting the OnChange or > providing our own. > > I will look into this soon. If someone does not post some light here I could > post what I can find here later on. > > I'm not an experienced Tapestry developer, but have been building components > for some weeks now so I'll try. > > On 5/1/06, Chris Chiappone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The reason I would like to have a button show the full list is if the user > > wants to know all of the possibilities in the selection list without > having > > to type anything. Does that make sense? > > > > On 5/1/06, Chris Chiappone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > One other question I had is that I notice if the autocompete is wrapped > > > in a conditional it doesn't seem to work. Have others experienced this? > > > > > > > > > On 5/1/06, Chris Chiappone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I have been using the Tacos autocompter with success for some time now > > > > and wanted to know how I could add functionality. What I basically want > is > > > > the ability to press a button next to the textfield that would autofill > all > > > > values in the completion list. Would this be something easy to > implement? > > > > Any thoughts or advice would be great. Thanks > > > > > > > > -- > > > > ~chris > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > ~chris > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > ~chris > > > > > > -- > Pedro Viegas > -- ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Tacos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tacos-devel
