Comments on: And Again! (ComboBox)

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:23:30 +0000

Can I ask, is there a new download URL?

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:04:57 +0000

Perfect!!! It took me a day and a half to find a widget that did what I wanted – and yours was that widget! Unreal!

By: Doug Hughes

Doug Hughes — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:03:00 +0000

Barney, I just wanted to say that this thing rocks. Ok, I also wanted to put in two feature requests and a bug.

The bug: If any item in your list is longer than your text area, it overflows the drop down and looks kinda funny.

Feature Request 1: I'd like to see it so that if you hit the down arrow in the combo box that it opens the drop down. Right now, I have to type some characters untill I find one that's actually in the list.

Feature Request 2: I'd like it, if when you have an item selected, that hitting the right arrow key would place the selected item in the text box and place your cursor at the end.

For data entry, these two items would rock.

Anyhow, thanks for such a terrific tool.

Doug

By: winfred

winfred — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 07:41:14 +0000

he bob
I was wondering if it's true that i can't select an item from the dropdown list with my mouse pointer. Both in IE and mozilla this feuture doesn't work.
i don't know if it's possible, would you let me know ?

thanks

By: HKS

HKS — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:19:02 +0000

I have seen a fair bit of JS with javadoc comments in them. A quick look around turned up this tool:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/js/rhino/examples/jsdoc.js

Maybe you can try that?

By: Barney

Barney — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:38:14 +0000

Steve, Yeah, it should, though you'll probably need to tweak the separator processing stuff for doing multi-item completion. Right now, it's pretty simplistic: just split the string on a character (think CF's list functions), and uses the last section for it's operations, rather than the whole value of the field. That's undoubtedly not sophisticated enough for code completion stuff, since you'd want to be able to have it fire in the middle of text, not just at the end.

By: Barney

Barney — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:35:38 +0000

Trond,
Any chance that you could tell me WHY it doesn't work in Opera? I'll probably get around to testing it in there eventually, but if you can expedite the process, that'd be great.

By: Steve Nelson

Steve Nelson — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:31:19 +0000

Out of curiousity, does this combobox thing work in a textarea? Like a homesite/Dreamweaver/ecipse code hint.

By: Trond Ulseth

Trond Ulseth — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 05:52:29 +0000

Just thought I'd inform you that it does not work on Opera.