advice for adding "select all" feature extension to AutoComboBoxSelectMultipleWidget

[dan garfield]

Hi Mark,

I have been trying to extend the select multiple combo box to support the case of a user wanting to add all of the results returned by the autocomplete query in a single click. I spent a few hours today trying to set up some jQuery event handlers to trigger click events on each item in the result list. I have discovered, unfortunately, that this doesn't seem to be possible due to event order of execution problems that I don't seem to be able to work around. I am able to get the first item only to process its click event, but this seems like it immediately triggers a blur that prevents execution of the click on the rest of the items in the result set. 

Do you have any idea about a better way to do what I'm trying to do? Is there a good solution to the event timing issues? Is there a way to access item selection without using click events? 

Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide. I've so far enjoyed working with django-selectable and would like to learn how to effectively extend it in this way. If I manage to come up with a good solution I would love to contribute it back to the project so others can benefit as well. 

Regards,

Dan Garfield

[Mark Lavin]

Dan,

That's an interesting use-case. You can manually trigger the item selection without the click with

$('#id_of_field').djselectable('select', {'id': myid, 'value': myvalue});

There was another person who asked about this for a different use https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-selectable/q2iQco8Jrkw/vTA39HuRMjgJ and it's used internally for the admin customization.

I don't have an brilliant insights on how to accomplish what you are trying to do off the top of my head but I would be interested in see what you can get working. If you have some other questions or run into other problems I'm happy to chime in.

Best,

Mark