----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Schwartz" <ms...@athenet.net>
> That urks me, too. In many web sites that have a state field, you can > at least type the first letter of your state, but you still have to use the > mouse, unless your state is the first one that starts with any given > letter. > When I type "W", "WA" pops up, so I still have to use the mouse to > select "WI". If I try to type "W" then "I", the popup box jumps to "IA". > > For example, jump to the state field on this website: > > https://www.tigerdirect.com/secure/subscribe2.asp?cm_sp=Masthead-_-NewCustom > er-_-NA > > "W" takes me to "Washington", but if I then type "I" it takes me down > to "International". I can avoid using my mouse if I type "W" and then > down arrow twice, to get past West Virginia. The widget is "pulldown menu with incremental search", and the question is "did they allow multiple character search input" and, as a sub query "how long after you hit a character does the hidden input field reset if you don't hit enter". Seems to me that Jeff Harrison coded a decent incremental search wrapped around a browse lookup at one point ... or maybe it was Ron Klimasewski, one of Microsys's other coders in the 90s. It's been a long time... It's odd, when I have to do maintenance work on tables all three of us had our fingers in, I can tell which of the three of us worked on a given routine; we each had a different view of 1TBS. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Make Election Day a federal holiday: http://wh.gov/lBm94 100k sigs by 12/14 Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
