This is a great idea. Do you think something like this could be done with the selectOneListbox, or selectOneMenu? It just runs off of the onKeyPress event. When a match is found you set the selectedIndex of the select box to be the match that the script is suggesting. IE has this but only fir the first letter. So I don't know if IE would get in the way of the script trying to do something. But this would be great if it could be done to these components also.
What do you think? --- Micha� Ma�ecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Sean, > something like that > > http://www.man.poznan.pl/~mmalecki/ehead.html ? > I think the best would be to mimic google suggest (I > mean combo box like view, not server-side > communcation),but it would definetelly more dhtml > magic > Micha� Ma�ecki > > > >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 > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
