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caunt
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 Posted - 15 Nov 2006 : 22:12:30
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What are you coding with? Seems like we should be able to find you a combobox with incremental search for all those wonderful drop-down lists you made.
By incremental search, I mean the user types a letter and the combobox drops down, goes to(scrolling if necessary), and selects the first item that starts with that letter. Then the user types another letter and the combo goes to the first item that starts with those 2 letters, etc.
When the correct word is highlighted in the combobox list, pressing the enter key enters whole entry into the combobox and closed the drop-down list.
This way much information can be added with 2 or three keystrokes. |
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Alessio Viti
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Posted - 16 Nov 2006 : 16:52:56
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I am coding with .NET 2005.
I think you can already do this, because if you type some letters the combobox automatically scroll-down to the first value that match. what you have todo is simply press the down-arrow to select the value and press enter.
Bye!
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caunt
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Posted - 17 Nov 2006 : 18:35:39
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Sorry I'm so slow getting back...my mom broke her leg yesterday.
that's odd,
on all the drop-down boxes I tried, when I type a letter, I get a letter in the combo box. No drop-down of the list, no going to the first occurance, just a letter.
At any rate, since the object is for the software to do as much work as possible and since the fact that the drop-down lists are limited by nature (many having only a few entries) a combo box which automatically dropped down, highlighted and selected at the first letter entered would allow users to enter most data in 1 keystroke, no mouse movement required. Some lists with many entries. or lists with several similar items might require 2 or more keystrokes, but it still should save a lot of work.
You have a lot to do I know, just pop this suggestion into the "when I have a chance" categories of to-do list. |
Edited by - caunt on 17 Nov 2006 23:10:21 |
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combobox - incremental search