Ayman Farouk

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AutoCompleteExtender control, again

Yes, it is the same control again. Lately, while I was testing that control, I tried to “special” type the first 3 letters of a word waiting the “dropped-down panel”. That special typing was like :

  • Typing the three letters directly; without time difference between typing the letters.
  • Typing the first letter, and couple of seconds later typing the rest.
  • Typing the first TWO letters and couple of seconds typing the rest one.

The first case worked fine.

The second case, didn't work fine all the times.

The last case, never worked !

In my opinion, the solution will be setting the minimumPrefixLength = 1  which is located in Atlas.js, so, the AutoCompleteExtender control will drop the panel once the first letter is typed. But I dont know how to solve this in the case of three letters. Any ideas !?

A.

Print | posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:26 PM |

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# re: AutoCompleteExtender control, again

Hi there,
I'm not entirely sure what the problem you're having is. Currently the AutoCompleteExtended simply doesn't support setting the minimumPrefixLength property. The default value is 3. This is something we are looking into for a future release. In all three of the scenarios you describe, after I type three letters no matter how long I wait in between, the drop down does come up properly.

For now you can just use the client-side autoComplete behavior.

Thanks,
Eilon
2/1/2006 12:31 AM | Eilon (Microsoft)
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# re: AutoCompleteExtender control, again

Oh, yeah.. I hope we'll be able to modify the minimumPrefixLength in the next release. Btw, am still facing the same problem.
Thanks,
A.
2/1/2006 3:55 AM | Ayman Farouk
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