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yeah, i know it's bad, and i have tried to talk them out of it, I am just going
to have to do it the best way possible, and let them live with the
consequences. I also suggested exactly what you have said here, just a text
box, where you can type in, and as you do, the valid users starting with the
typed in chars appear. This could work for them, but would be trickey, seeing
every single one of their users start with the same 4 chars (W-U-). So, I
wouldn't be able to bring the list of users that match back until they had
typed in at least 5 chars, and they would see this as "it's not working". don't
ask me why all users start with W-U-, it's what I've inherited. Google have
somethng similar (which I pointed out to them) at
www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en
Seems most people use an pre-selction approach. Rich, do you mean gzipping the
xml before sending it back to the page, and then unzipping it as part of the
return handler ? Thanks for the hints, Tom. Mark, yep, I s*it you not, the
exact number is OVER 100,000 !
forgot to put a subject on my original, so putting one now, in case people want
to search by subject in archives
>Tell them no.
>
>It's ridiculous to have a drop-down with 100k items - with that many entries
>it has to be an textbox.
>
>If usernames are long, you could consider doing a dynamic lookup after
>typing the first three/four characters, and offering the most likely
>candidates.
>If you can't wait for CF8 (which I believe has a control that will do this),
>you'll probably be able to find plenty of examples if you google for
>something like "text autocomplete javascript widget" or similar, otherwise I
>can write a quick example of it.
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