Jim,
Like you, I also try to follow the same simple approach as our website is strictly for paid-up business subscribers.
I have also recently been looking for a good auto-complete implementation and have decided to adopt a newer version from jQuery via their recent jquery-ui-1.9m2 library.
Feedback seemed to indicate this is now a superior library for enrichment and the auto-complete is said to offer more flexibility.
My requirement was to enrich an existing address line input on a form while still retaining the familiar line of input boxes for street, suburb and city.
While there are examples around, it is often difficult to find one that fits your needs, caching in particular.
However, I have found sufficient code to put together a successful solution.
The street name field provides the user with an auto-complete list containing the complete addresses for those that start with the 1st 3 chars (or more) entered.
Selecting a full address from the list will automatically populate all the address input boxes without any further keystrokes.
Cheers, Peter
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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Turner
Sent: Monday, 27 December 2010 11:04 a.m.
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] standard ajax or jquery functions for browser data entry
If you want good working examples of those sorts of things then it is probably best to pick a decent javascript library (like jQuery/Mootools/Glow/Dojo/ExtJS/Rico etc). Have a look at the examples and decide which one fits the bill for the sort of things you want to do. A colleague pointed me in the direction of jQuery a while ago and I have never been short of a plethora of examples of how to do all the things you would expect from a good rich UI....and of course the examples are well documented, they work and they are browser agnostic.
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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 26 December 2010 17:20
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] standard ajax or jquery functions for browser data entry
I am preparing to update a browser based order app, written in rpg cgi 10 years ago. A lot has changed in user editing capabilities over those years. To piggyback on recent discussions on rpg'rs coding modern web2.0 type app, what are the functions most used that one needs to incorporate, and if possible - where are the working examples? I've been astounded (not really.) by the code examples on many sites/forums that just plain don't work. One (while trying to implement autocomplete function) in a well reviewed book had just plain bad syntax in the examples.
My emphasis is logical and efficient data entry, NOT pretty presentations, bouncing balls & flash video.
Users are asking for that "google" entry effect "autocomplete", popup calendars, edit fields while typing, and dynamic dropdown menus to get to anywhere.
Since customers in this as well, must include last x years of various browsers.
Over the years on midrange-l we've had lots of discussion of DDS functions - let's have one on web2.0 interface.
Jim Franz
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