Comments on: Flex 4 AutoComplete

By: cg

cg — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:38:52 +0000

Ok, found out how to do this myself. Removed lines 321 – 324 in the Autocomplete.as file. The following lines where the item is being set to null

if (collection.length==0){
_selectedIndex = -1;
selectedItem = null;
}

By: cg

cg — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:44:03 +0000

Is there anyway to allow for free text as well as the dropdown list?

For example, when using as in input field, as people type in the text box for a first name, they will see a list that help them pick a list of predefined common names, but they are still free to enter their own name. eg – “J” (shows John, Jenny, Jake) … “John” (only two items left in the list “John”, “Johno”)… user enters “Johnster” which might be their actual name and continues on with the rest of the form

By: Shafi

Shafi — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:31:38 +0000

Thanks for sharing the code.

If we have to dynamic dataProvider. When user press the “A” it should fetch the data from there server and show them in list

By: admin

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:31:26 +0000

Thanks for the tips. I have implemented the first two and updated the source.
I haven’t experienced no 3. so far.

By: Vicary Archangel

Vicary Archangel — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:36:01 +0000

A few fine tuning:
1. on _focusOutHandler, clear out selectedIndex and selectedItem on “collection.length == 0″.
2. on set selectedItem, also set _text rather than just inputTxt.text.
3. Directly changing the dataProvider may cause filter and sorter already set being malfunctioned, shoulda create new ListCollectionView or something with the same source on setting dataProvider property.

Great component and I’m sure I’ll use it for a long time.

By: Vicary Archangel

Vicary Archangel — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:09:46 +0000

It throws a RangeException when you press enter on every thing in the list is filtered out.

You can fix this by adding “&& collection.length > 0″ in the first if statement under method acceptCompletion().

By: Matthew Montana

Matthew Montana — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:41:18 +0000

Any chance you could throw together a quick and dirty sample of adding icons? I’m very much a noob. I’m not sure where to even start modifying those files. Thanks in advance.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:12:11 +0000

Yes, you need to edit the skin file AutoCompleteSkin – to change the input – and to define a custom item renderer for ListAutoComplete – to change the popup.

By: Matthew Montana

Matthew Montana — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:55:07 +0000

Great component. Clean and quick. Question…Would it be possible to add icons to the component, both in the text input and the pop up list?

By: Ranch

Ranch — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:55:28 +0000

Thank you very much, after the upgrade it works fine as a stand alone.
But, when the autocomplete is part of a datagrid the mouse down code is not working. any suggestion?