Two questions regarding yui autocomplete:
Is there a way to make yui autocomplete mouse selection and keyboard up/down selection create only one selection at any time ?
Also is there any way to update the text in the autocomplete textbox with the selection done with keyboard up/down arrow only ie force the selection to appear in the textbox above if user selects in with up/down arrow keys ?
Note that in the following link I see deep blue for keyboard up/down arrow and light blue for mouse selection. (Remove the underscore before http in your browser url)
Case #1: _http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/autocomplete/ac_basic_array.html
However in the following link(case #2) this is not the case. I see only one selection (dark blue) at one point of time.
Case #2: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/autocomplete/ac_basic_xhr.html
If I use the mouse and/or key up/down, there is still only one selection dark blue always.
My application is behaving as in case #1 but I would like it to behave as in case 2 above, with only one selection at any time and in addition update the text when user moves with the keyboard up/down arrow keys.
How can I make this happen? Both the above examples are using YUI autocomplete, but I can't see the difference between the two to make my app follow example 2.
In summary I want this to behave as google suggest does in www.google.com
Thanks,
Viji
var myConfigs = {typeAhead:true, autoHighlight:false, prehighlightClassName:""},
myAutoComp = new YAHOO.widget.AutoComplete("myInput","myContainer", myDataSource, myConfigs);
By the way, prehighlightClassName is disabled by default so you really shouldn't need to specify it in the configs.
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I'm not sure exactly what keyword I should be searching, but I wasn't able to find the answer to my problem - I'm new to iOS development so apologies in advanced if I'm not using the correct UI components.
I want to create something like a segmented control (two choices) with multi-line descriptions in them, except I'm not sure if I should be using a segmented control to do so, or to customize a button to create it. The user should be able to select a "choice" and that will switch views and tint the choice not selected depending on the choice the user makes. How exactly would I design this / is this possible?
I've already attempted to modify the segmented control but couldn't get the desired results. I've thought about creating a text box and modifying it to act like a button selector, but wasn't sure if that was the best way. I would love some input, thanks!
The exact already asked question to what I'd like to do is: how to add tooltip on the entries and not the combo....
I cannot use a CCombo. JoeYo said that he solved it by using a DefaultToolTip class on the Combo, but he didn't elaborate.
Can anyone, (#JoeYo hopefully) give me a bit more detail how to got the handle on the list, once dropped, to capture the mouse hover events, and then of course display the tool tip?
If I was supposed to ask for more info on the original question, I could not figure out how. I tried to comment, but was told I did not have enough credits.
DefaultToolTip is part of JFace. Other than the native tooltip of the platform, it can be freely positioned and shown/hidden. Internally it is comprised of a Shell that when shown stays on top of all other controls.
In combination with a MouseListener, the getVisibleItemCount() and getItemHeight you might be able to compute above which item (if any) the mouse cursor hovers and show a tooltip with suitable content.
This answer has a snippet that computes which item of a List widget is under the mouse pointer. It should be possible to adapt it for the Combo widget. The remaining difficulty is probably to figure out the of the drop-down and the gap between of the Combo and its drop-down.
I have a data entry form. Its properly tab indexed etc. and there are three dropdown menus which automatically unfurl with the on enter event.
No matter how much advice i give to users about using the tab key and keboard and checking what they just input.
they still insist on using the mouse to select values from the dropdown menus
the problem is that in their haste they often make mistakes as a result of using the mouse.
I would like to be able to force users to input into these fields using the keyboard.
the drop down is neccessary for users see the appropriate values for the field because the values will vary based on previous selections.
I have already tried experimenting with onclick events but to no avail.
Is there a way I can do this?
i am using access 2007 many of the users have access 2003.
Based on your comments, I would take one of two different approaches.
If your users are really comfortable with the codes AND know which ones they should use based on their previous selections, then just use text boxes instead of combo boxes. You can still put some validation code in either the Form_BeforeUpdate event or the individual control's _BeforeUpdate event.
If the users are not that comfortable, then I would suggest you have the first field in the combo boxes be the description of the code, not the code itself. So instead of choosing from 101, 102, 103 they are instead choosing from "Small", "Medium", "Large" or whatever those codes actually apply to. If you still wanted to display the codes themselves, you could do that with a separate disabled text box.
Now to answer your actual question. For the record, I highly recommend against using this approach. The simplest way I can thing of to prevent your users from using the mouse to select the combo box, would be to add a Transparent button covering the combo box.
To do this, draw a regular command button over the combo. Set Transparent = Yes, Visible = Yes, Enabled = Yes, Tab Stop = No.
When users click on the combo now, they will actually be clicking on the Transparent button and nothing will happen. The ONLY way they will be able to get into the control is by tabbing from a neighboring control or using a hotkey (via '&' in attached label).
Once they enter the control via Tab and your code forces a dropdown, they will still be able to choose an option using the mouse. But by forcing them to use the keyboard initially, it will make it much more likely that they just stick with the keyboard.
Again--I can't stress this enough--I think this is a terrible, horrible, no-good idea. Please don't use this approach. But you asked a technical question and this site is all about giving technical answers, so there you go...
I am making a vertical Menu using GWT MenuBar and selection of particular MenuItem shows content on the right, I am trying to make something similar to TabPanel, but with Tabs on left instead of being on top. Now, since I've got the Menu items and actions in place, I want to remove the effect of hovering over and changing color, and keep that menu item selected which was clicked last and whose content is loaded on the right.
I am open to any comments, if you have a better solution to implement this, using some other components(with-in) GWT, please drop in a comment with your suggestions, I'll really appreciate that.
Or if you can just tell me how can I disable this effect, of hovering and sticking to only that selection, That would be awesome too..
Thanks to everyone, taking time to read this and suggesting a solution.
It's all defined in the CSS of your GWT's theme (probably the default one), so it's a matter of overriding those styles - make sure it's not the other way around :) Inspect the code with a tool like Firebug to see what's exactly being set and change that.