Is there anyway to have the autocomplete for a combo box to start from anywhere in the text, let me give you an example. If I have someone named john smith in the combobox if I start with the letter 'j' it pulls up john smith but less say I want to start with the letter 's' to search for his last name, is that possible, if so does anyone have code or a link to code that does this.
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Please give more detail on where you are getting the auto complete data from. The simple answer is yes you can.
If its a database just use the LIKE query: $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE columnname LIKE '%search query%' ORDER BY lastUpdated desc");
kalpaitch
2010-02-27 00:16:51
I have a json file that is tranmitted from the server to the client, I parsed the file placed it in a store and set the combobox to display the store.
2010-02-27 00:32:44
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Have you looked at SuggestBox? The MultiWordSuggestOracle that feeds the data to the suggest box seems to do exactly what you want - see the javadocs for usage and examples.
Update: Here's a rather nice example of customizing GWT's SuggestBox to look like the one on Facebook: http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/creating_a_facebook_style_autocomplete Be sure to follow all the links in that tutorial, as they contain a lot of info about using the SuggestBox.
Igor Klimer
2010-02-27 01:02:23