Yours is more elaborate! I am doing a hybrid on the smarttable one
(www.datatables.net). Nothing fancy, just adding an additional button for
the actions rather than links. This way I get the live-search plus the add
button I want.
Thanks
d
On Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:18:07 UTC-7, Derek wrote:
>
> I get what you are saying. I wrote a function (not on web2py, but it's
> javascript...)
>
>
> // this will capture the 'enter' key when pressed inside the text box, so
> searching works better.
> function IEKeyCap(e)
> {
>
> if (e.keyCode == 13) {dsCustomers.filter(myFilterFunc)};
>
> }
>
> function FilterData()
> {
> dsCustomers.filter(myFilterFunc);
> }
>
> function StartFilterTimer()
> {
> if (StartFilterTimer.timerID)
> clearTimeout(StartFilterTimer.timerID);
> StartFilterTimer.timerID = setTimeout(function() {
> StartFilterTimer.timerID = null; FilterData(); }, 100);
> }
>
> and here was my html that fired it...
> <input class="searchbox" onkeyup="StartFilterTimer();" type="text"
> name="srch" id="srch">
>
> This was using the Adobe Spry framework, but it's essentially the same.
> When you press a key, it starts the timer (for 100ms). If the timer was
> already going and you press another key, it restarts the timer.
> After 100ms, it then calls the filter function. If they press enter
> (keycode 13) it will also call the filter function.
>
> I think the problem here is that the SQLFORM.smartgrid isn't AJAX, in that
> when you click 'search' instead of just reloading the grid with the
> filtered data, it just redirects you (to the exact same page you're on) and
> shows you the filtered data.
>
> The only way I know to do it with AJAX is to write my own smartgrid, or
> use Adobe Spry Framework because it's awesome - and you can just tell
> web2py that you want that dict as a json.
>
> On Monday, March 26, 2012 1:24:42 PM UTC-7, greenpoise wrote:
>>
>> What I was looking for was a type-ahead function using SQLFORM.smartgrid
>> instead of typing a word and pressing search.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:15:23 UTC-7, Alan Etkin wrote:
>>>
>>> I think you mean SQLFORM.smartgrid.
>>>
>>> Book's 7.8 section (the features are explained there):
>>>
>>> "...
>>> A SQLFORM.smartgrid looks a lot like a grid, in fact it contains a
>>> grid but it is
>>> designed to take as input not a query but only one table and to browse
>>> said
>>> table and selected referencing tables.
>>> ..."
>>>
>>> On Mar 22, 7:16 pm, greenpoise <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Are these two equivalents?? I remember using smartables at some point.
>>> What
>>> > I liked about it was the search feature without having to press any
>>> button
>>> > to search for my text within a table. Does SQLFORM.grid provides
>>> something
>>> > similar??
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> >
>>> > d
>>
>>
