hello friends, i took autocomplete to make some ajax field choices from a database poered site.
it works great, but i had the pleasure to add a small contribution too. 1. the ability to send additional fields data in the ajax call could of course be achieved with extraParams option. but i needed it for multiple fields, and to add multiple other fields to each ajax call. hence i made an additional list[] option, extraFields, that will add a key-value pair for each field in the list. if the field name is preceeded by an '#', this will be considered the id of the field (but the '#' will be stripped on the ajax url). otherwise, the field will be searched in the same form with our input, by it's name. 2. after i used the alt-shift keys combination to switch the keyboard mapping before inputing data to a field, the autocomplete process wouldn't start when minchars (=1) was reached. with a little debugging, i found 2 key events are being sent in sequence, 18 and 0.i have disabled changes check on 18, but also 16 and 17: control, alt and shift keys. 3. probably out of ignorance, i have refocused the input after user selects from the list with return. if the user selects using the keyboard, s?he may certainly wish to use the keyboard and tab to the next field, while bluring it moves, in firefox, the focus to the form, so that pressing tab will move focus to the first field. in case that's a terrible mistake on my part, do you have any better idea? i would certainly add an option to move focus to the next field after selecting completion, whether by return or by click. 4. for the case the user programmer would select jquery compatible mode, where jQuery() won't be aliased by $(), autocomplete would fail, since it still calls jQuery() by $(). as a disciplined programmer, i'd definitely change that. jquery.autocomplete.ja is naturally attached. please diff to see my changes. best regards, alex
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