i _could_ use something from a combobox i did some time ago:
http://people.apache.org/~gseitz/combo/<http://people.apache.org/%7Egseitz/combo/>
but that script is 13kb (unstripped) compared to wicket-autocomplete
3k (stripped) and it's based on YUI...

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Gerolf Seitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> k, it's basically done.
> if the list is longer than the browser's height, scrolling with both the
> keyboard
> and the mouse either feels kinda awkward (because the entire page gets
> scrolled
> with .scrollIntoView) or even impossible.
> what we could do now is the following:
> put the list in another div with style "overflow:scroll; height: XYpx;"
> this way scrollIntoView does not affect the entire page.
>
> now if anyone can think of better names than "allowEmptyInput" or
> "showListOnEmptyInput" i will happily use the better suggestions ;)
>
> Gerolf
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Gerolf Seitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > nah, i think this should be pretty straight forward.
> > let me take a look.
> >
> > Gabriel, can you file a jira issue for that? thanks.
> >
> > Gerolf
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Johan Compagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I guess this is being done because when nothing is typed there is
> > > normally
> > > no list?
> > >
> > > Gerolf do you see any problem making this configurable so that it does
> > > show
> > > always a list if there are values?
> > >
> > > johan
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Gabriel Erzse <
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am using the autocomplete feature of Wicket, and I would like the
> > > user
> > > > to see the entire list of available values when the input field is
> > > empty.
> > > > Then, as he starts typing values in the input field, the list of
> > > values will
> > > > narrow down.
> > > >
> > > > However I see that when the input field is empty, the popup for
> > > > autocomplete is not displayed (for example when I press down arrow).
> > > I
> > > > searched in the wicket code and I saw that in file
> > > "wicket-autocomplete.js",
> > > > in function "doUpdateChoices" there are two checks for the situation
> > > when
> > > > the input field is empty. These checks don't allow for the popup to
> > > be
> > > > visible.
> > > >
> > > > So, my questions would be: does anyone know why this was done so,
> > > and can
> > > > I somehow disable this behavior? I would find it really useful to be
> > > able to
> > > > display a list of values even when the input field is empty.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you,
> > > > Gabi.
> > > >
> > > >
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