I like the idea to. It would be useful for input masks. For instance
right now the date and time component doesn't do a great job of telling
the user what each field is. With this feature it would allow the user
to place their cursor in the hour field and prompt them with "hh" for a
two character hour. Right now I have to create a <TR> right above the
date and time component and try to match up headings with the fields
that are beneath it.
Aaron Bartell
Korhonen, Kalle wrote:
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
