[Tacos-devel] Linking an Autocompleter to another component

[Pedro Viegas]

Hi all,

Been trying for sometime to get something like linked comboboxes of dependant result sets.
Something like having a combo with Directories and another Combo with the current directory's files.
I have been trying to add this funcionallity to the Tacos:Autocompleter but it's getting very close to impossible.
My goal is to have a simple to use enhanced Autocompleter with by setting attributes can link to another AutoCompleter ou other components.

What would be perfect was to be able to pass a second parameter to the listener method instead of just the typed text.
I have been unable to to this till now.
I have been able to pass a new static parameter only by overriding the Trigger method of the Tacos Autocompleter.java (witch forces only the first parameter).
Even like this I only could get a static parameter since the submit is handled by the script.acul.uous Ajax.AutoCompleter widget and it only receives a URL to start with.
I found no event I could attach or change so I could add my URL dynamic changes or some other solution.

Been trying to get this working for more than a week. Could really get some help by now! :-S

Can anybody shed some light into this?
Am I complicating things? If there is a better way to do this please let me know.

As I said all I want to do is to create a couple of components. One a Autocompleter like component. The other a normal PropertySelection.
But both of them with a linked component property for passing the filter to build the selection values from.

One last thing... all of this the AJAX way of course. Something the Tacos:Autocompleter does, and that is easy enought to build PropertySelection version of it.

Thanks,

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Pedro Viegas