I want to improve the usability of the autocomplete control.

This person I think was so inspirated http://www.nabble.com/usability-problem-with-a-combo-box-tt17129126.html#a17129126 (no one answered him :-(

I want to paint a small arrow in the autocomplete control and once clicked I want it to have the same effect as of pressing the down arrow key.

haw approach will be good for this? is it possible by mimicking the logic of the date picker control (one icon bound to the control once pressed launch an action)? wich is the proper code to  "cut-copy-modify"  in xforms.js to got this done?

thx a lot.


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Good question. I'm also interested in this problem.

Frank



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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard C. Hidalgo Lorite [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: 27 November 2008 12:22
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [ops-users] I want to improve the usability of the autocomplete
control.

This person I think was so inspirated
http://www.nabble.com/usability-problem-with-a-combo-box-tt17129126.html#a17
129126 (no one answered him :-(

I want to paint a small arrow in the autocomplete control and once clicked I
want it to have the same effect as of pressing the down arrow key.

haw approach will be good for this? is it possible by mimicking the logic of
the date picker control (one icon bound to the control once pressed launch
an action)? wich is the proper code to  "cut-copy-modify"  in xforms.js to
got this done?

thx a lot.



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The plan is to migrate to the YUI autocomplete at some point. Ideal  
thing to do would be to look at this:

   http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/autocomplete/

then see if that helps with your usability problem. Then integrate  
that into Orbeon Forms instead of the custom implementation we have.

-Erik

On Nov 27, 2008, at 4:22 AM, Richard C. Hidalgo Lorite wrote:
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