Re: [VuFind-Tech] Auto-selecting on Auto-suggest

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There's an additional issue with the autocomplete in that if the 
autocomplete JSON request takes a long time, a previous request may 
override later response e.g. if the user pauses briefly when entering 
the search query. In our custom version, commit 
https://github.com/KDK-Alli/NDL-VuFind/commit/b6de0d6127c46b34f9673952edf814d6258aa7c9 
contains changes to abort the previous call before doing a new one. I 
haven't had a chance to create a proper patch for the trunk.

--Ere

20.9.2012 23.54, Nathan Tallman kirjoitti:
> Thanks everyone for the feedback! We'll probably leave it on for now,
> the auto-suggest is too useful!
>
> Nathan
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> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Demian Katz <dem...@vi...
> <mailto:dem...@vi...>> wrote:
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>     I have also noticed this behavior, and I agree that it is annoying.
>     It appears to be a standard characteristic of the jQueryUI
>     autocomplete library that we use.  I was able to make the same thing
>     happen on the jQueryUI demo page here:____
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>     http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/____
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>     Perhaps there is a way to configure the behavior, though I didn’t
>     see an obvious answer from browsing the documentation.____
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>     If you want to follow up on this with the jQueryUI community, it
>     looks like there are several ways to reach them – maybe somebody
>     there knows an easy answer:____
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>     http://jqueryui.com/support____
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>     I suspect that the reasoning for this behavior is that you can
>     change the focused autocomplete item either by mousing over it or
>     using the arrow keys.  When you hit enter, the software doesn’t know
>     if the highlighting is due to mouse positioning or arrow keying, so
>     it just assumes the focus is intentional and selects the item.
>     Personally, I think I would be happier to completely disable the
>     keyboard shortcuts in order to avoid this annoying side effect…
>     another option would be to disable mouse-based focusing (i.e.
>     mousing over an item doesn’t highlight it – you have to click to get
>     results; only keyboard actions move the highlighted item).  That
>     would be more functional but might seem cosmetically wrong.  And in
>     any case, I think either of these solutions would require
>     modifications to the underlying library (unless there are
>     configuration options I’m not aware of).____
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>     - Demian____
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>     *From:*Oliver Goldschmidt [mailto:o.g...@tu...
>     <mailto:o.g...@tu...>]
>     *Sent:* Thursday, September 20, 2012 9:51 AM
>     *To:* vuf...@li...
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>     *Subject:* Re: [VuFind-Tech] Auto-selecting on Auto-suggest____
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>     Hi Nathan,
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>     yes, we experienced similar problems, that made the auto-suggest a
>     pretty annoying feature. I never heard complaints from any of the
>     users, but I have seen this behaviour (although I personally also
>     did not have problems with that). Currently, we have turned off auto
>     suggestion completely. Actually this was only something I missed
>     when updating our production system of Vufind, but I have not turned
>     it on again. And although about that I haven't got any complaints
>     yet (so I'll leave it switched off for now).
>
>     Best
>     Oliver
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>     Am 20.09.2012 15:37, schrieb Nathan Tallman: ____
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>     Some of our users are experiencing an odd behavior on the VuFind
>     interface. It happens when they are typing a search query and their
>     cursor is somewhere close below the searchbox. As they type,
>     auto-suggest populates some terms, and here's what happens: If their
>     mouse happens to be hovering over a term, it selects the term, such
>     that when they when they finish typing their query and hit enter,
>     the auto-suggest term is filled in the searchbox, not the query they
>     just typed. ____
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>     Personally, I've never experienced this problem, but I was able to
>     replicate it. I usually just tell them to keep the cursor away from
>     the searchbox, which is sensible since the searchbox
>     is automatically active. But, since I've heard this a few times
>     know, I thought I'd ask the list if they've had similar problem and
>     what they did.____
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>     Many thanks,____
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>     Nathan____
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