[Tacos-devel] AjaxEventSubmit Questions

[Jeremy]

Hi guys. Looks like this is going in a cool direction. However, I’m a little confused about the version in alpha-7.   I’m building a form with a TextArea that kindof works like an AutoCompleter. I put the TextArea inside an AjaxForm, and I’ve attached an AjaxEventSubmit to the onkeyup event of the TextArea.   The server-side listener needs the input of the TextArea to generate suggestions. (BTW: I can’t use an AutoCompleter because the suggestions shouldn’t appear in a pull down, they need to appear in some other part of the page.)   So the AjaxEventSubmit gives me two choices for attaching a listener. I can use the “action” parameter which causes tacos to fire the specified listener right before firing the form’s listener. Or I can use the “listener” parameter which causes tacos to fire the listener method when the AjaxEventSubmit component rewinds.   In the first case, my form’s listener fires too. That’s not the behavior I want. I only want the AjaxEventSubmit listener to fire in this case.   In the second case, the listener *must* fire before the TextArea rewinds because I *must* place the AjaxEventSubmit component before the form elements which trigger it. So in this case, my listener can’t get the data it needs.   I don’t quite know what to do here. Am I using the AjaxEventSubmit component for an unintended purpose? I notice that the AjaxForm in the demo doesn’t have a “listener” parameter or a LinkSubmit or anything. Perhaps nobody has tried this yet?   Thanks for your help!   Jeremy