Ah, I see. Looking at the code, what you said makes since. I guess that would be for typing in "tags" or something like that.
Thanks -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Tetlaw Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 5:47 PM To: rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org Subject: Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Autocomplete GetToken?? AFAIK it's because some autocompletion fields might take multiple values and be delimited by characters like a comma or space. The get token method allows you to get the last keyword/tag the user is entering and instead of the whole value. On 18/05/06, Daniel Elmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I needing to modify the control.js file and am confused about what the > purpose of the getToken function is. I read the docs section below and still > don't understand why it doesn't just access the form.value directly. > > Docs say: > This method should get the text for which to provide autocompletion by > invoking this.getToken(), NOT by directly accessing this.element.value. This > is to allow incremental tokenized autocompletion. > > Does anyone understand the getToken function?? > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > Rails-spinoffs mailing list > Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs > -- Andrew _______________________________________________ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs
