Once you have Firebug there, you will be able to see exactly what is going on. If you could post a link, there are at any given time at least N*100 people on this list with it alive and active, and you might get your answer a little sooner.
It's odd that you aren't seeing any search attempt until you press a non-character button. By this do you mean a spacebar or a control key or what? Have you added any of the options like the number of characters before attempting a match, or anything out of the ordinary like that? Please remind me what your call to Autocompleter looks like. Also, what server environment and browser are you seeing this in? Scripty is not at all picky about server, naturally, but I have seen cases where session handling was so greedy that Ajax stuff just wouldn't work correctly. Walter On Oct 8, 2008, at 3:06 PM, ericindc wrote: > > Walter, > > I had given up on this and switched to jQuery's version of > autocompleter, but seeing how I hate jQuery I'm back at it again. I'm > working with my SAs to get Firefox/Firebug installed to take a peak > behind the scenes. > > I just noticed that hitting any non-character button also seems to > trigger the correct action. So for instance, I type in "Ja" and my > indicator flashes up but no results are displayed. If I hit the shift > key once, the correct results for "Ja" are shown. > > Also, I removed the autocomplete. > > On Sep 29, 11:29 am, Walter Lee Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I meant that if you were to validate your code, having >> autocomplete="false" in the form element would cause it to fail. >> >> Scripty magically adds the behavior using JavaScript, which is then >> valid code. >> >> Many many things about Prototype (and by extension, Scripty) rely on >> your code being squeaky-clean and valid. I am not saying that is the >> root of your problem here, just that you should make every attempt to >> fix the things that keep a page from validating before calling "bug" >> on anything Prototype-based. >> >> Walter >> >> On Sep 29, 2008, at 10:07 AM, ericindc wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> One other thing, I don't see mention of the invalid attribute in the >>> documentation. Can you point me in the right direction... >> >>> On Sep 26, 12:53 pm, Walter Lee Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> You don't say if you're having any problems with this, but you can >>>> remove the autocomplete (invalid) attribute -- Scripty adds that >>>> behavior automagically. Otherwise, this looks okay from the calling >>>> side. >> >>>> If your return includes anything besides a bare list (and these >>>> strong tags count, I believe) then you might see failure from >>>> there. >>>> You're returning a UL, but it's being treated as a data store more >>>> than a presentational element. I see what you're trying to >>>> accomplish >>>> here, but you need to add that style using another means. There >>>> is a >>>> "hook" event that happens after the autocompleter has refreshed its >>>> display. Try patching into that to find and replace the search text >>>> within the result list with a 'stronged' version of itself. >> >>>> Walter >> >>>> On Sep 26, 2008, at 12:03 PM, ericindc wrote: >> >>>>> Thanks Walter, that cleared things up. >> >>>>> Here is a link to the HTML that contains the new >>>>> Ajax.Autocompleter >>>>> code as well as my input field and response div. The PHP script >>>>> prints a string of the following format: >> >>>>> [ul] >>>>> [li id="1234"][strong]Perk[/strong]ins, Justin[/li] >>>>> [li id="5678"][strong]Perk[/strong]ins, Tim[/li] >>>>> [/ul] >> >>>>> http://pastie.org/279871 >> >>>>> On Sep 26, 11:18 am, Walter Lee Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> When the Autocompleter says "returns", it means returns in the >>>>>> same >>>>>> way that when you request a page from a Web server, the server >>>>>> returns that page. It's a HTTP return, not a PHP return. >> >>>>>> A function (in PHP or any language) may return a string or other >>>>>> variable. But that string won't go anywhere outside the >>>>>> application >>>>>> server (won't be sent to the browser) unless you print() or >>>>>> echo() >>>>>> it. >> >>>>>> Walter >> >>>>>> On Sep 25, 2008, at 8:16 PM, ericindc wrote: >> >>>>>>> The part I was confused on is that my PHP code >>>>>>> doesn't actually return the string containing the unordered >>>>>>> list, >>>>>>> but >>>>>>> rather prints it.- Hide quoted text - >> >>>>>> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - >> >>>> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
