Rails spinoffs - Mar 2006 - Delayed input posting

Dear all,

I''d like to post input field a short delay after last key press
(similar
like a delay in autocomplete field). Is there anything already done 
somewhere, maybe some kind of a streched-down autocomplete field just 
for such purpose? If no, have anyone an idea how can I do that (as a not 
very knowledgeable in JavaScript)?

Thanks for any help
Janko

Javascript has a handy function for doing just this: setTimout

Anyplace that you''d normall execute a function:
if (things_are_in_order){
    run_my_function();
}

you can just delay that a bit:
if (things_are_in_order){
   setTimeout("run_my_function()", 1000);
}

notice that the name of the function you want to run is in quotes (it''s
passed as a string).  Also, the number that follows is
how_many_seconds_you_want_to_wait * 1000.  So a half second is 500, quarter
second is 250, and so on.

Hope this helps,
    - Danger

On 3/1/06, Janko Mivšek
<janko.mivsek-E3fUNmXwn2NDlGyqqv13OA@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I''d like to post input field a short delay after last key press
(similar
> like a delay in autocomplete field). Is there anything already done
> somewhere, maybe some kind of a streched-down autocomplete field just
> for such purpose? If no, have anyone an idea how can I do that (as a not
> very knowledgeable in JavaScript)?
>
> Thanks for any help
> Janko
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What you need is exactly the patch that I posted to this mailling list a month
ago, and got no
comments on. I can find you the patch but it won''t make a lot of sense
to you, I''d ask the dev team
to put my patch in to the CVS, then get a copy of it.

I''ll re-send the patch after this E-mail

-Rob

Janko Mivšek wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I''d like to post input field a short delay after last key press
(similar
> like a delay in autocomplete field). Is there anything already done 
> somewhere, maybe some kind of a streched-down autocomplete field just 
> for such purpose? If no, have anyone an idea how can I do that (as a not 
> very knowledgeable in JavaScript)?
> 
> Thanks for any help
> Janko
> _______________________________________________
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> Rails-spinoffs-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs

Hi Rob,

I''m looking back for your patch. I this a right one?
  [PATCH] Allow generic autocompleter (Ajax.Watcher) 13feb06
  http://threebit.net/mail-archive/rails-spinoffs/msg00215.html

Thanks
Janko


Robin Haswell wrote:
> What you need is exactly the patch that I posted to this mailling list a 
> month ago, and got no comments on. I can find you the patch but it
won''t
> make a lot of sense to you, I''d ask the dev team to put my patch
in to
> the CVS, then get a copy of it.
> 
> I''ll re-send the patch after this E-mail
> 
> -Rob
> 
> Janko Mivšek wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I''d like to post input field a short delay after last key
press
>> (similar like a delay in autocomplete field). Is there anything 
>> already done somewhere, maybe some kind of a streched-down 
>> autocomplete field just for such purpose? If no, have anyone an idea 
>> how can I do that (as a not very knowledgeable in JavaScript)?
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>> Janko
>> _______________________________________________
>> Rails-spinoffs mailing list
>> Rails-spinoffs-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org
>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs
> 
> 
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Yeah that''s the one, but I did re-forward this yesterday as well :-)

Janko Mivšek wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> I''m looking back for your patch. I this a right one?
>  [PATCH] Allow generic autocompleter (Ajax.Watcher) 13feb06
>  http://threebit.net/mail-archive/rails-spinoffs/msg00215.html
> 
> Thanks
> Janko
> 
> 
> Robin Haswell wrote:
>> What you need is exactly the patch that I posted to this mailling list 
>> a month ago, and got no comments on. I can find you the patch but it 
>> won''t make a lot of sense to you, I''d ask the dev
team to put my patch
>> in to the CVS, then get a copy of it.
>>
>> I''ll re-send the patch after this E-mail
>>
>> -Rob
>>
>> Janko Mivšek wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I''d like to post input field a short delay after last key
press
>>> (similar like a delay in autocomplete field). Is there anything 
>>> already done somewhere, maybe some kind of a streched-down 
>>> autocomplete field just for such purpose? If no, have anyone an
idea
>>> how can I do that (as a not very knowledgeable in JavaScript)?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help
>>> Janko
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Rails-spinoffs mailing list
>>> Rails-spinoffs-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org
>>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>>
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