Re: [Dynapi-Dev] JS/DOM Autocompletion in IE6 / Mozilla 1.4

[Raymond I. <xw...@ya...>]

Wonderful! This is great!

From the looks of things I think it should go within
the GUI section as it will mainly be used by gui
components. Otherwise it should go into the util
section.

You can create and AutoComplete Class library so a
user could create an autocomplete object:

var ac = new AutoComplete();
// autocomplete could inherit the EventObject

--
Raymond Irving

--- Leif W <war...@us...> wrote:
> I've recently put together an autocompletion script
> that will work with an
> input text field, with data either in a JS array, or
> in a SELECT.  It works
> the same in IE6 and Mozilla 1.4.  I couldn't find
> the specific documentation
> for the Mozilla functions used.  I had to search the
> CVS source tree, as the
> "range" related objects (selecting a range of text)
> and methods particular
> to DOM aren't really very well documented.  There's
> some documentation of
> Range for Mozilla, but I'm not using any of those
> functions.  I just
> happened to find some bits of IE and Mozilla
> specific autocompletion on the
> web, and took and merged them.
> 
> Would something like this be a useful utility for
> the DynAPI?  If so, where
> should it go?  If the code needs modifying for
> DynAPI integration, I might
> need some pointers.  If the example doesn't work in
> a browser (Opera, etc.)
> I'd need someone else to fix it as I don't have
> access to other browsers
> yet.
> 
> Leif
> 
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Cross-browser autocompletionvar myAcData =[   
"aardvark",    "antipathy",    "baseball",   
"basketball",    "train",    "train station"];/* * 
NAME: autoComplete *  INPUT: *      inputField: text
field where user is typing *      inputEvent: holds
keystroke event data *      acData: data to search for
auto complete *      acDataType: JavaScript array or
HTML FORM's SELECT's OPTIONs. *  OUTPUT: */function
autoComplete ( inputField, inputEvent, acData,
acDataType ){    var acDataTmp = new Array();    if (
acDataType == 'js' )    {        for ( var i = 0; i   
   
      Cross-browser autocompletion
              
   autocomplete a text field with data in array       

   autocomplete a text field with data in a select
field      
      Supported Browsers:              
   Internet Explorer 6        
   Mozilla 1.4      
                                                      
                                                 
[input]                                               
                     aardvark
                  antipathy
                  baseball
                  basketball
                  train
                  train station                       
                                                      
                    [input]                           
                                                      
                            aardvark                  
   antipathy                      baseball            
         basketball                      train        
             train station                            
                                                      
                                                    
[input]                                               
                                                      
        aardvark                      antipathy       
              baseball                      basketball
                     train                      train
station                                               
                                                      
       textField.createTextRange()
textRange.moveStart( 'character', pos )
textRange.moveEnd( 'character', pos )
textRange.select()

[Mozilla]
textField.selectionStart()
textField.setSelectionRange( start, stop )
textField.getCaretOffset( pos? )
textField.setCaretOffset( pos? )
-->



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