Slick grid set value on autocomplete cell - autocomplete

Question

I'm trying to set values in a slick grid from jQuery thru val and text e.g. .find('div.slick-cell.l2.r2').text('xyz'). There is a jquery autocomplete on the cell in question but it only gets activated on click. So when I click the cell in question it get overwritten by the initial defaultValue in the editor:
function ComboBoxEditor(args) {
...
this.loadValue = function (item) {
defaultValue = item[args.column.field] || "";
$input.val(defaultValue);
$input[0].defaultValue = defaultValue;
$input.select();
};
...
Can I get the jQuery text value from within the world of the slick grid.

Answer 1

Think of slickgrid as a rendering engine and dataView as the data interface (You are using dataView right?) Jquery or javascript editing of dom elements isn't gong to work so think about how jquery/javascript can use the dataView methods to do the updating.
I ran into this same issue when adding drag and drop of files into SlickGrid
I detect the elementID of the drop and map it back to the dataView row and column.
Here is the function I used for text pasting:
function insertText(textString, location) {
grid.resetActiveCell();
$(location).click();
var startCell = grid.getActiveCell();
if (startCell) {
// only paste text into active cells for now
var columnDef = grid.getColumns();
var colField = columnDef[startCell.cell].field;
if (!dataView.getItem(startCell.row)) {
// new row
var tobj = {'id': "new_" + (Math.random() + 1).toString(36).substring(7)};
tobj[colField] = textString;
dataView.addItem(tobj);
} else {
// modify existing cell
var item = dataView.getItem(startCell.row);
item[colField] = textString;
dataView.updateItem(item.id, item);
}
grid.resetActiveCell();
grid.render();
dataView.refresh();
}
}