I am looking for something similar to the way an Apple iOS works when typing into text fields. My purpose will be for addresses.
Ex: 123 Blueberry Avenue
For instance if they start typing in '123' it won't do anything but
as soon as they type in B it will popup with all B recommendations from a dictionary ('Blue', 'Bobcat', 'Batman', etc.,) and filter down. Once they complete a word and press space it'll repeat the process.
I have telerik which has a single search and autocomplete criteria, but I'm looking for something with a little more versatility. Any help will be appreciated.
Telerik AutoCompleteBox is just what you need, what do you mean versatility?
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I have been researching this for weeks now, and have not been able to locate what should be a simple solution to a simple problem. I have an Adobe Pro XI form with a ComboBox that has a very large list -- over 500 -- for the user to select from. Currently, the ComboBox only responds to the first letter typed, so that if the name the user is looking for begins "Lor...", when the "L" is pressed it will scroll to the top of the "L's", but then when the "o" is pressed, it scrolls to the top of the "o's", and so-on. Is there an easy solution to script this so that it will scroll through the list as the user types? Optimally, I'd like to be able to use a Document level script that I can then activate On Focus from the Actions tab of the ComboBox Properties dialog. I have found some solutions to this problem for other applications, but have not been able to find something that works for Adobe Acrobat Pro. Note that I am not a programmer, I am the company accountant and am trying to fix a form. Thanks for any help.
Combo boxes become rather cumbersome when they have a high number of entries (in older References, it was suggested to not go beyond 50 or so entries).
It does require a little bit more programming, but using a popup in this situation, together with a field in which the result will be written, is more efficient and ergonomic, because popups can be multilevel, which means, you could group everything between A and D in one level, everything between E and H, and so on.
Have a look at app.popupMenuEx() in the Acrobat JavaScript documentation.
FWIW, with a little bit more scripting, such multilevel popups can be created dynamically on the fly; personal experience shows that to build up such a popup with no more than 35 selections at the farthest level, and a total of 1500 or so selections takes less than a second.
I'm a novice in programming and I'm seeking advice on my program in visual basic (visual studio 2010).
I'll describe my aims of the program and how I've created a mock up.
My main interface will have several tabs. Within each tab, there will consist of a few textboxes for entering data and a few checkedlistboxes with a list of items in each of them.
What I'd like to do is to gather all the information inputted and/or clicked by a user of the program and to assimilate the information to a pre-formatted text box, that will give me the option to output it to a file. I'd like the pre-formatted textbox to gather the data from the different textboxes and checkedlistboxes from the various tabs. I can give an example (non-code) of what I mean:
Tab 1 of application:
textbox asking for name
textbox asking for date
checkedlistbox with items ("green", "blue", "red")
Tab 2 of application:
textbox asking for name of country
textbox asking for citizenship
checkedlistbox with items ("north", "south", "east", "west")
Tab 3 of application:
textbox that is "preformatted" to grab the data from the first two tabs so that I can save it to a textfile that would look like this
My name is Billy
Today's date is 31JAN2010.
I like: green blue red,
I come from United States of America.
I am American.
I am from the region of South
As of now, the method I'm using is largely inefficient. I'm just not knowledgable enough yet to do what I want do I've resorted to this strategy:
For checkedlistitems, I output the list of items to a textbox. I make this box invisible to the user. I then call this box in my tab 3, which has a button and text area. The button portion automatically codes the "preformatted" text and its a matter of referencing the invisible textbox which contains the item lists that were checked. One problem with this, or how I've programmed the checkedlist box, is that If I check something, and then uncheck it, it still appears in my tab 3 textbox.
For example, If I was a user using the 2nd tab and I clicked "South" but then unclick it and click "North", the textbox says
I am from the region of South North
I'm not sure which property or where in my code I need to alter so that it can remove items. I'm using a for loop to grab the items and don't have my code on hand.
In general, I'm just looking for strategies for programming something like this that will be efficient compared to what I have. Any suggestions / examples / code is well appreciated.
For your checkedlistbox, you can use the even SelectedIndexChanged that way when you change the selection, you won't have that problem:
example of how to use:
If you have a simple label for example :
Label1.Text = "I am from the region of " & checkedlistbox1.selecteditem.value
Btw in your case I don't think a for loop is necessary.
If you wish for information try w3schools or msdn.
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I was thinking of ways to implement a generic View search. What I mean here is say a Window has many controls (including usercontrols,customcontrols, etc). I want to implement a generic search box on the top of window which searches any Text in the window and highlight them.
I wanted to know is there a generic way of doing this or has anyone tried such UI based search.
I was searching through internet and found some nice links like below::
http://khason.net/blog/search-and-highlight-any-text-on-wpf-rendered-page/ which says search and highlight any Text in WPF rendered page but it doesnt work when there are lot of UserControls and CustomControls.
I myself did some research and thought of going through the VisualTree,LogicalTree, etc but I did not find them satisfactory.
Some say do it using attached behaviors or by data binding but that also did not help me. Because even if i achieved search using this technique, the problem is highlighting. Say there are 4 TextBoxes having different background colors and I highlight background to Yellow when Text is found, I have no way of removing the highlighting when Text is not found because I don't know the previous background color of TextBox.
Ok , enough of my thoughts. I would like to simply accept I am going nowhere in my thoughts. So people I want some guidance in implementing UI search. Also if you people can tell me how I can make it generic, it will be useful!!
I have a list that the user can filter in several ways. two of which lend themselves to combo boxes and two that need to accept user input. For example, one textbox allows the user to type in any part of a list item's description, and the dialog will only present items whose description contains the text entered.
It is a dialog 'picker' type of window, so space is at a premium. I'd like for the text boxes not to require a traditional label. Instead, when the dialog is first invoked, the label (ie, "Description") is grayed out, centered, and in italics. Maybe a tool tip to further make it obvious to the user what it's for. When the user starts to type, the faux label disappears and the entered text is normal left aligned text.
Does wpf / silverlight have any native support for doing something like this? I guess it could be a combination of styles and eventing. I'd rather not invent any wheels that might be out there (I got the idea specifically from looking at Tortoise' "Show Log" window, but I've seen it before).
Does anyone have any sample code they can share to do this? Or a an alternative idea that also saves space and simplifies the layout?
Cheers,
Berryl
Kevin Moore's InfoTextBox, which is part of his Bag-O-Tricks is the kind of thing I was looking for, almost exactly. This is also the 'watermark' (great name - I would have found this sooner if I had known that) text box from another post.
In WPF, when I enter some text in combobox, it will highlight the item starting with the text I entered. This highlighting will search the whole text i have entered in the combo box. But instead i want the text search to match only the first letter. How to do this?
Actually, I want to make TextSearch.Text to be always first character.
Ive done something similar to this. Found a sort of howto on a blog post, dont have the link saved but did a new search now and found this, which (from my memory) looks quite similar.