Dojo is "eating up" the key events, and notifyTopics is only published
when a value is selected from the dropdown, so, the way it is right now
I think it cannot be done. I will try to add it, not sure if it will be
on 2.0.2 (I've broken enough things for this version already :) )

musachy

Musachy Barroso wrote:
> The autocompleter is like 2 weeks old, be patient with it :). The
> attribute is "delay", and the units are milliseconds. About
> typing...that is a little bit tricky and I want to provide an easier
> way of doing it in the future, the way Dojo's autocompleter works is
> that it loads its content once, and then makes suggestions from those
> items, which is a little bit different from the typing approach.
>
> You can use topics to make the autocompleter reload its values, you
> can either attach a javascript event to it, so when the value changes
> you publish the topic, forcing it to reload, or you can use the
> "notifyTopics" which will be published when the value change. I
> started to put some docs together for the ajax tags here:
>
> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/S2WIKI/Ajax+Tags
>
> I haven't tried to make it work like this myslef, if I get an example
> running I will post it on the wiki.
>
> regards
> musachy
>
> Dariusz Wojtas wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using the latest Struts 2.0.2 build from repository.
>>
>> This time I am trying to use the autocompleter tag.
>> The showcase example shows it's basic usage, looks promising.
>> But there are some issues.
>> *) how to reload the contents of the tag while the user is typing? is
>> it possible?
>> *) some properties from the 'AutocompleterTag' are missing
>> (searchType) or misspelled (delay while java code shows it should be
>> searchDelay) in TLD
>>
>> Also the
>>  http://struts.apache.org/WW/tag-reference.html
>> wiki page does not mention this tag.
>>
>> After I locally changed TLD to contain attribute 'searchDelay'
>> (instead of 'delay'), it started to accept this property, but I do not
>> see any effect of reloading it from the server.
>>
>> My JSP page contains
>>  <s:head theme="ajax"/>
>> in head, and
>>  <s:autocompleter theme="ajax" href="/listy/kontrahenci.action"
>> cssStyle="width: 200px;" dropdownHeight="180" searchDelay="1"/>
>> in the body.
>>
>> Please help mi find how to use it correctly, so that it reloads the
>> combo after typing sth and waiting the given delay. And what units
>> does the searchDelay accept? seconds or millis?
>>
>> Best regards
>> Dariusz Wojtas
>>
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