TextboxList 0.3 and jQuery version out!
Moo TextboxList 0.3 changes:
- HTML for bits not showing properly fixed
highlightSelectornot working (due to a typo) fixedGrowingInputmissing pad function added (only affected if you customized growing.mini option)- Improved clicking the whole widget behavior
- Other tiny enhancements / cleanup
Secondly, in the best interest of the JavaScript community, I’ve ported TextboxList to jQuery. The API changes slightly due to the different OOP approach, but all the functionality is intact. Head to jQuery TextboxList project page for more.
Update: 0.2 is out for jQuery. Bugs in autocompleter and IE have been addressed.
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Guillermo Rauch 11 months ago
I’ll look into it!
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Bartolome 11 months ago
Awesome. You’re a rockstar.
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The problem lies in the GrowingInput.js script. Commenting out
calc.css(p, element.css(p));
fixes the problem, though at what cost? Not sure, the script looks the same to me..
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Ok that was my mistake. $.each passes the index first, not the value. I fixed it and released 0.3. Not sure how it affected Prototype, but hopefully it’s fixed now.
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OK, I’m starting to see how the backend works. I initially thought autosuggest.php was called only after the user started typing. Instead, it looks like it’s called as soon as you click. The upside to this is that it starts loading sooner than it would if you waited for a keystroke. The downside is that you can’t run any screening on the backend. For example, if I have a database with 6,000 records, I might want to run some sort of screen based on what the user has typed in. For example, if they type in ’s’, I might want to only empty out records starting with ’s’ to cut traffic by a factor of 26. With the current setup, I can’t do that. If you can’t change the backend’s response based on the input, it might as well be embedded in the page instead of returned via Ajax, right? I.e., it’s not dynamic.
I just need to look to see how to get this to submit a GET request to autosuggest.php when the user types, instead of on load or when they first click. Anyone have suggestions for how to do that?
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This is something I might eventually add. But usually, the idea of the tokenizer is that you work with pre-fetched data. It’s the case of Gmail or Facebook contacts list, which is fetched once via AJAX and made persistent.
Also, the class is designed in such a way that it’s easy to extend and add this functionality, because I had it in mind at the time of writing the API.
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Olivier REfalo 10 months ago
Bartolome I am with you with on this one.
Guillermo in a different post was saying that the backend was flexible
enough to allow these kinds of queries. In fact I even asked him his 2c
advise to implement it and now only realize why I didn’t get any answer…
If only I had known before purchasing… I guess this is not plug and play,
I’ll have to get my hands dirty…
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This is a lovely script. Unfortunately, I use prototype. Normally, I can get jquery to work on the same page as prototype thanks to jquery’s brilliant noconflict function. With this script, though, I can’t. Firebug spits out an error stating “this.toPaddedString is not a function” when it loads up Prototype! I have a feeling there is something in your code that is causing this to happen. I’m not saying it’s your fault - but I am saying that if you could fix it, you’d get another paying customer!