I ended up writing this widget on my own. Here's a detailed blog entry
> Hi Matt,
> We have one a similar thing for one of our applications, so it's
> definitely possible. The left hand section of the suggest box provides
> your highlighted search terms, and the right hand side provides
> detailed preview information about the selected item, and is heavily
> customised through css.
> The general approach is to *unfortunately* copy and paste SuggestBox
> and all it's related classes into your own package in the
> com.google.gwt.user.client package, due to the package protected
> nature of the existing api and final classes. You can then add all
> your functionality desired into your custom version. We found that we
> have to extend it in quite a few places to make it usable enough for
> clients.
> I know of one public enhanced suggestbox which is code.google.com/p/
> kiyaa and you can look at the related commercial project
> clarityaccounting which is quite impressive for a demo of how they
> work.
> I am not sure if the same information applies to 1.6 as we haven't
> upgraded yet.
> Joe
> On May 29, 10:45 am, Matt Raible <mrai...@gmail.com> wrote:> I'm looking for a GWT-based autocompleter that allows for aFacebook-
> > style presentation of the chosen item. I was able to get SuggestBox to
> > select multiple (comma-delimited) values using the following tutorial:
> >http://ljvjonok.blogspot.com/2008/10/gwt-suggestbox-how-to-make-multi...
> r> However, to do formatting of the selected items, it seems like a
> <div>
> > structure needs to be used so the items can be formatted with CSS.
> > Since SelectBox only accepts a TextBoxBase in its constructor, I'm
> > guessing this is not possible out-of-the-box.
> > For a specific example of what I'm looking for, see the following
> > jQuery Plugin.
> >http://loopj.com/2009/04/25/jquery-plugin-tokenizing-autocomplete-tex...
> > Has anyone created such a widget for GWT?
> > Thanks,
> > Matt
