I want to be able to insert a nickname and have it automatically
complete the address without making me choose from any dialog list. The
dialog list is a big waste of time for me.
Jean-Francois Ducarroz wrote:
> What I will do is when you don't have an exact match, I will not autocomplete the
> user input but only show the menu (the widget knows already to do that if the backend
> search engine return a defaultItemIndex = -1). However what should I do when the user
> press enter without having selected an item in the menu? In 4.x we display the dialog
> forcing the user to choose.
>
> JFD
>
> Phil Peterson wrote:
>
>> Jean-Francois Ducarroz wrote:
>>
>>> In 4.x, if I type scott, I get ({} represents the blur string):
>>> scott {<multiple matches found>}
>>> Then when you press enter, you get a dialog with the whole list of matches, this
>>> is exactly the same list that I show now in the popup menu. Therefore the new
>>> behavior is very similar to 4.x, the only difference is that we skip a step
>>
>> When there are multiple matches, 4.x forces the user to make a choice,
>> rather than completing to the first match. If this choice is the step
>> we're skipping, then I think we're making it too easy to address the
>> message to the wrong recipient.
>>
>> -- Phil.
>
