Thank you.
Yeah I haven't tried it but yeah that should do the trick. I didn't
even think about putting in my own textfield and hiddenfield but that
makes it even more flexible. I'll give it a try tonight. And I have
to be honest I am excited I have wanted to use AutoComplete for a
while.
-Ian
On 10/9/06, Kevin Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When you set up the AC widget, you can pass in your own TextField and
> HiddenField widgets, something like this (going from memory, this is not
> actual working code):
>
> tf = TextField("textfieldname" ... attributes can be set here ... )
> hf = HiddenField("hiddenfieldname" ... attrs can be set here ... )
>
> class FormWdigets(WidgetsList):
> ac = AutoCompleteField(name="acname", text_field=tf,
> hidden_field=hf)
>
> form = TableForm(fields=FormWidgets)
>
> That may not be it exactly, but should give you the idea...haven't tried it
> with adding JS event handlers though.
>
> If you can't get the event handler working this way, there's always the
> MochiKit Signal API, though. That might be worth a try.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Kevin H
>
>
> On 10/9/06, Ian Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I am going to jump on this thread since I have some AutoComplete
> > questions and will probably have more. Its too bad i didn't see this
> > before it was a struggle to get the hidden field to work. Has anyone
> > been able to set the attributes of the textfield and hiddenfield? If
> > I want to do some ajax when the user does select something from the
> > autocomplete what is the best method without breaking the widget? I
> > was thinking of adding an onChange method to the hidden field so that
> > when a name is selected from the my list and it stores the id then the
> > onchange js function will be called and I can go to the server and get
> > the information for that name using Javascript.
> >
> > Right now I use this which does nothing(no errors, just nothing):
> >
> > attrs = {}
> > attrs['text'] = dict(size=150)
> > attrs['hidden'] = dict(onchange="selectPlant()")
> > form = TableForm(
> > fields=[
> > AutoCompleteField(name='plantName',
> > search_controller='getPlants', search_param='rawSearchWords',
> > result_name='results', label="Plant:",
> > attrs=attrs),...
> >
> > Maybe my dictionary is setup wrong I can't really see why this doesn't
> work.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Ian
> >
> > On 10/5/06, percious <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> > >
> > > found the answer. The AutoCompleteField automatically comes with a
> > > "hidden" value. When you return your search results, return a tuple
> > > like: (view, hidden):
> > > @expose(format="json")
> > > def search(self, searchString):
> > > vars = self._generateVariables(self.iceProjectID)
> > > varList = []
> > > searchString = searchString.lower()
> > > items = []
> > > for var in vars.values():
> > > if searchString in (var.tag+var.description).lower():
> > > items.append(("%s - %s"%(var.tag,var.description),
> > > var.id))
> > > return dict(items=items)
> > >
> > > Then you can get your results something like the following:
> > > @expose()
> > > def addParameter(self, areaID, parameters=None):
> > > if parameters!=None:
> > > parameter = parameters['hidden']
> > > variable = Parameter.get(int(parameter))
> > > return dict(parameter=variable)
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > > >
> >
>
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