Hi Brian and Shelane,
the quietness isn't really a bad thing. Most of the stuff that we got
requests for has been implemented. And those that come in more slowly
give us the foundation for further improvments that need more time. In
the meantime I've been heavily busy with other stuff, and I've also
released a new version of the validation plugin.
I'm essentially trying to replicate a "combobox".
Ext's combobox widget is a nice reference. It seems to do all you need,
though you'd have to live with a 150k+ overhead. Please take at least a
look at it and let me know if that is close to what you need. I'm sure
we can get it working with less pounds of code.
I'm almost certainly going to use a fairly limited set of local data. Not
that I want to rule remote data out, mind you. Basically, I want a
"pulldown" control that will show the entire list (preferably with
scrolling, which I think is not presently implemented). Then, the user
can click on the option that they want. Or, if they start typing into the
input, they get the normal autocomplete behavior - except that the
non-selected choices are still clickable, and the first close match is
auto-selected. And, the user must be able to enter a value that isn't one
of the choices.
Scrolling was on our todo list anyway. Adding a clickable button
shouldn't be too hard either, and thats it, isn't it?
It's amazing how many widgets out there have gotten *close* to what I
need, without actually arriving there. :) If I had a good enough grasp
of how the plugin currently works, I'd take a whack at it myself. It's
*so* almost there!
It would help a lot if you could provide a patch that adds the button
(using a nice graphic?) and a click-event-handler. The positioning of
the button would be the more serious issue to me.
Any investigations on how to implement scrolling would help a lot, too.
Setting a height and overflow-y: auto doesn't do the trick yet, because
the list has to scroll also when using the keyboard. That was what
stopped my first naive two-minute approach to tackle scrolling.
--
Jörn Zaefferer
http://bassistance.de
