I''m building a rails application that will likely make heavy use of the
autocompleter functionality - It is very very cool, by the way.
I''ve currently got it displaying a "X more..." at the bottom
of the
autocomplete menu, by putting stuff outside the <ul>..</ul>.
This seems to work ok.
I''ve further wrapped the "X more.." in a link_to_remote(),
which currently
updates a random div I dumped on my page for testing.
What I''d really like to do, is when the "X more..." is
clicked, enlarge
the menu and resend the query for more items.
Potentially I''d have a "next" and "prev" set of
buttons, so user can
browse through the ''options''.
Perhaps further updates to the text field would update this larger box,
not the smaller one.
I think right now, I''ll implement this by creating a div that pops up
over
the top of everything and tell link_to_remote to update it and make it
visible.
Obviously, it would be much cooler if it were possible to implement this
as part of the autocomplete stuff.
I imagine that this would require the autocomplete stuff to have a
"limit"
option, which specifies how many initial items. The box would ideally
expand to fill most of the browser window when "more..." is clicked,
so
perhaps a that limit can be calculated? (or maybe my faith in javascript
is a bit much..)
Thoughts?
