Rails spinoffs - Sep 2005 - Autocompleter: displaying resuts-div on focus

Hi,
In the last two days I posted 4 different questions to this forums, but 
no single answer... Is it personal ? ;-)
Anywayz I continue trying, so maybe I have luck this time...

The question: in an autocomplete component, is it possible to make the 
results-div apear when the text field is getting focus?

Thanx in advance,
Ron

Maybe a

Event.observe(''input_field_id'', ''focus'',
function(){  Element.show
(''results_div_id'') });

works, but it probably makes the autocompleter do weird things.

Otherwise, you have to change how the autocompleter works by  
overriding/changing
its methods.

Thomas


Am 22.09.2005 um 15:19 schrieb Ron Piterman:
> Hi,
> In the last two days I posted 4 different questions to this forums,  
> but no single answer... Is it personal ? ;-)
> Anywayz I continue trying, so maybe I have luck this time...
>
> The question: in an autocomplete component, is it possible to make  
> the results-div apear when the text field is getting focus?

Now that you answered this one :) can you also tell me if there is a way in
which instead of using the token (,) we could automatically have a comma (,)
inserted after an entry is populated?
This way user can keep typing, selecting and typing...

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focus


Maybe a

Event.observe(''input_field_id'', ''focus'',
function(){  Element.show
(''results_div_id'') });

works, but it probably makes the autocompleter do weird things.

Otherwise, you have to change how the autocompleter works by  
overriding/changing
its methods.

Thomas


Am 22.09.2005 um 15:19 schrieb Ron Piterman:
> Hi,
> In the last two days I posted 4 different questions to this forums,  
> but no single answer... Is it personal ? ;-)
> Anywayz I continue trying, so maybe I have luck this time...
>
> The question: in an autocomplete component, is it possible to make  
> the results-div apear when the text field is getting focus?
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You have to change controls.js for that, too.

For most use cases, that''s not a desired thing (where additional  
entries are more optional than the standard case).

Thomas

Am 22.09.2005 um 13:54 schrieb Maninder, Singh:
> Now that you answered this one :) can you also tell me if there is  
> a way in which instead of using the token (,) we could  
> automatically have a comma (,) inserted after an entry is populated?
> This way user can keep typing, selecting and typing...

Thanks,
Could you supply a small sample of how to do that ?
As a java-script novice (and java expert) I find this not sooo clear...
Cheers,
Ron


????? Thomas Fuchs:
> Maybe a
>
> Event.observe(''input_field_id'',
''focus'', function(){ Element.show
> (''results_div_id'') });
>
> works, but it probably makes the autocompleter do weird things.
>
> Otherwise, you have to change how the autocompleter works by 
> overriding/changing
> its methods.
>
> Thomas
>
>
> Am 22.09.2005 um 15:19 schrieb Ron Piterman:
>
>> Hi,
>> In the last two days I posted 4 different questions to this forums, 
>> but no single answer... Is it personal ? ;-)
>> Anywayz I continue trying, so maybe I have luck this time...
>>
>> The question: in an autocomplete component, is it possible to make 
>> the results-div apear when the text field is getting focus?
>
>
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