Definitely sounds like a useful component. Kalle
> -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Schofield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 1:24 PM > To: MyFaces Discussion > Subject: New component idea: MyFaces Suggest > > I have an idea for the next component I can contribute. I am > still working on the revised tree but there is a new > component that I am working on that I think would be very > useful for others. > > Basically it would be a "suggest" input component. So it > would look like a regular input text field but once you > started typing in it, it would "suggest" choices. For those > of you not familiar with "google suggest" you should check > that feature out for a better idea of what I mean. > > Unlike google's suggest feature it would not dynamically > communicate with the server to update the list. You would > specify a finite list via a backing bean and those would be > the choices. You could also specify whether to require the > value be one of the choices listed (it would have an internal > validatation method provided.) > > I had the idea for this feature when our users complained > about now having the "type ahead" stuff in our webapp that > they were used to seeing in their otherwise lousy Oracle > Forms application. (Not a slam on Oracle Forms, just this > implementation.) > > Anyways, I am working with someone who is doing all of the > javascript and DHTML necessary. It wil work in IE and > Firefox. I will port it over to JSF and offer it to MyFaces > if there is interest. > > sean > >
