Rails spinoffs - Aug 2007 - Ajax.Autocompleter fadeoff when scrolling the list in IE and Safari

Hi All:
I have a very large user table, more than 2.000, so i cant use a
<select> to present the users list any more.
I replace the <select> with a <input> using Ajax.Autocompleter

If we type "john" or "peter" we still get a very long list,
so the
list shows the scroll bar, and its ok.
The problem is that when we try to scroll, the list fades out.

It happends on IE and Safari, but not in firefox
Any ideas to fix it?

I´m using scriptaculous 1.7.1 beta3 + protoype 1.5.1.1

Sorry about my little english, im from Argentina :)


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On Aug 3, 2007, at 4:24 AM, Pablo Impallari wrote:
>
> Hi All:
> I have a very large user table, more than 2.000, so i cant use a
> <select> to present the users list any more.
> I replace the <select> with a <input> using Ajax.Autocompleter
>
> If we type "john" or "peter" we still get a very long
list, so the
> list shows the scroll bar, and its ok.
> The problem is that when we try to scroll, the list fades out.
>
> It happends on IE and Safari, but not in firefox
> Any ideas to fix it?
>
>
In your server-side code, you could limit the number of results from 
your query to something which would fit on the screen, maybe 20 or so.

Another thing to try is to take a look at the autocompleter parameters. 
There is one which allows you to tokenize the completion (split the 
lookup on word spaces or commas or whatever). So if you typed
''smith'',
and didn''t see the name you want listed, you could continue on to type 
''smith t'' and find Tom Smith.

If you do the former, it''s important to add some explanation to the 
results, like "Only the first 20 matches will be shown" or similar.

Walter


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Hi Walter, thanks for your reply.
I know I can limit the result and tokenize results. I have already
done that.
But I still want to fix the precise problem of the list fading out on
scrolling.


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No one has a fix for that?


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