auto searching technique

[FlexibleLearning at aol.com]

Hi Devin,

To automatically display the closest spelt item and hilite  the auto-inserted 
characters, put this in the script of your comboBox  button...

on keyup k
put num of chars of the label of me into  temp
get line lineoffset(CR&last word of the label me, CR&me)  of me
if it <>"" then set the label of me to it
  else beep  # optional
select char (temp +1) to -1 of  me
end keyup

Tested with a 3,000 line menuItem list and seems suitably  responsive.

/H



> -----Original Message-----
>  From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
>  [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Devin  Asay
> Sent: Thursday, 19 January, 2006 20:38
> To: How to use  Revolution
> Subject: auto searching technique
> 
> I know  this has been discussed before, but I'm not having any 
> luck in the  archives, and I can't reach Rev Online for some 
> reason. :-(
>  
> Has anyone developed a handler for doing an active search for 
>  a line in a combo box popup while typing in the combo box? So 
> if my  combo box contains a list like this, in alphabetical order:
> 
>  Apple
> Banana
> Cantelope
> Grape
> Kiwi
>  Orange
> Peach
> Pear
> Pineapple
> Plum
>  Raspberry
> Strawberry
> Watermelon
> 
> And I start  typing "p", the list pops up with the first item 
> beginning with "p"  hilited. Or more accurately, the first 
> item beginning with 'p' with  everything after 'p' hilited. 
> Then as I continue to type "pi",  Pineapple is (partially) 
> highlighted. Sort of like auto-complete in a  web browser url 
> field or my Mail program's address field.
>  
> I know this can be done, but it's eluding me at the moment.
>  
> Devin
> 
> Devin Asay
> Humanities Technology and  Research Support Center Brigham 
> Young University