Hi, I started using Autocompleter.Local recently but discovered that it had a few problems. The way it's been implemented assumes that you always want to select one of the matching entries in the autocomplete drop-down. If, for example, the drop-down list contains Food and you type foo, it will automatically select the Food entry in the drop-down list of suggestions. At this point, the only way to exit the autocompleter control without 'foo' in the text box getting changed to Food is to press Escape or click elsewhere on the page with the mouse. This is quite confusing for the average user and means that the autocomplete functionality can really get in the way.
I've modified the code slightly to change this behaviour so that it no longer automatically selects the first element in the list of suggestions. This way, if you type something into the control and then press tab to move on or enter to submit the form, what you typed is preserved. If you want to select one of the sugestions, you have to use the arrow keys or the mouse. This, incidentally, is how most autocomplete drop-downs that I've seen work - including Google suggest and Firefox. I was wondering where to go now. I did intend to file a bug, but don't seem to have appropriate permissions to do so. I've also got a working patch, but suspect the change may need to be implemented with appropriate options to keep the now default behaviour. Cheers, Max --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
