Have a look at autocomplete texxtfield, it should provide a good starting point.
** Martin 2009/6/19 Andrea Aime <aa...@opengeo.org>: > Hi, > I have a form in which one of the fields represents a server > side path. The field has a validator to make sure the path is > valid and contains certain kind of files inside of it. > > I also have a link on the side of it that opens in a modal > window a server side file system browser to be used as a > directory chooser. > > The issue is, I would like to know what the user typed in > the field, use it in the chooser, and when I'm done with > the chooser, update the value in the field accordingly. > > I've tried out three solutions, none of them seems to work: > - plain ajaxsubmitlink: validation triggers and onSubmit does > not get called all the time. Not good > - ajajxsubmitlink + disable default form processing + grab > the field input value -> the chooser starts with whatever > the user typed in, but when the chooser closes it > would seem the field is not updated even if it's > part of the ajax request target and its model has > been updated > - ajaxlink: the opposite, that is the form field value > cannot be read (it's not posted back to the server) > but when the chooser closes the field value is updated > with whatever the user chose (the code that does > the field update is exactly the same) > > Sigh... any way to have this thing work both ways? > I can provide sample code, but first I'd like to check if > there is any general reason why this would not work. > > Cheers > Andrea > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
