Hi list, I'm using the excellent autocomplete plugin from bassistance.de. The cache and subset matching features are very useful.
I would like to take the subset matching a bit further. I want to prevent the script from querying the server if the query string does not match anything from a previous result set in which the current query is a potential subset of. I apologize for being unclear, I know I'm misusing the terms here. I hope I could explain it better with an example. A user types 'foo', which calls a server script that returns ['foo', 'foobar', 'foobarbaz']. The user then types 'b'. Because of subset matching, a query for 'foob' is not sent anymore, and the current set is still used. If the user then types 'u', which matches nothing in the result set, the script takes a trip to the server. That trip is useless since all words with 'foo' have already been obtained. A query for 'foobu' will not return anything. My goal is to prevent that trip to ease the server load a little. Another thing, I bound a blur handler for the autocompleted element which calls search() so that I could display a message if there are no matches found, as per a recommendation I found in this list's archive. My problem is that the search() method triggers another server query, which is useless since I already know that there are no matches. Is there a better way to display a 'no match' message which doesn't need to ask the server? Any guidance regarding these matters would be highly appreciated. Thanks, -- -- Mon
