displaying all suggestions in a suggest box

[dandante]

Hi,

I would like to use the suggest box in a slightly more combo-box like
manner: I would like to see ALL the suggestions displayed (there
aren't that many) if the user double-clicks in the box, or types * in
the box.

I know how to trap the double-click event, so I don't need to focus on
that. I looked at the code for the oracles and tried creating my own
and even tried copying/modifyng one of google's classes but I could
not figure out how to make a request that would return all
suggestions.

I looked into using the GWT-EXT combo box but that presented a whole
host of other problems....

Can anyone give me some suggestions (haha) for displaying all
suggestions?
Thanks

[Michael Press]

You can write your own SuggestOracle to do your own matching. Since
your SuggestOracle implementation returns whatever YOU say matches,
it could easily return everything if the search string is "*" or
whatever your magic phrase is.

I posted code to this forum a while back with my SuggestOracle
implementation -
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_frm/thread/349144a2fa934e5/a570493ea675d282?lnk=gst&q=SuggestOracle+press#a570493ea675d282

The requestSuggestions() implementation calls the GWT
callback.onSuggestionReady() with the suggestions to put in the
dropdown; instead of checking for matches and restricting to a limit
of 20 like I did, you could return all the items in the list.

I think GWT should have included a base implementation like this one
that requires only your own matching algorithm in the computeItemsFor
method().

Michael

[dandante]

Nice...I got it to work. BTW I also had to implement the method
getReplacementString() from SuggestOracle.Suggestion, but that was no
big deal.
I changed it so that if you type '*' in the box it displays all
suggestions...now I just need to make a double-click trigger a '*'
suggestion request.
Thanks!

On Feb 26, 3:35 pm, Michael Press <michaelpr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can write your own SuggestOracle to do your own matching. Since
> your SuggestOracle implementation returns whatever YOU say matches,
> it could easily return everything if the search string is "*" or
> whatever your magic phrase is.
>
> I posted code to this forum a while back with my SuggestOracle

> implementation -http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_frm/thread/3...

[dandante]

Um....now I'm stuck trying to populate the suggest box suggestions in
response to an event.
I want it to be so that if you press Enter in the suggest box it
behaves as though you had typed '*' in it.

final StartsWithSuggestOracle oracle = new
StartsWithSuggestOracle();
oracle.add("Aa");
oracle.add("Bb");

final SuggestBox sb = new SuggestBox(oracle);

sb.addKeyboardListener(new KeyboardListenerAdapter(){
public void onKeyPress(Widget widget, char c, int i) {
super.onKeyPress(widget, c, i);
if (c == KeyboardListener.KEY_ENTER && i == 0) {
SuggestOracle.Request req = new
SuggestOracle.Request("*");
oracle.requestSuggestions(req, new
SuggestOracle.Callback() {
public void
onSuggestionsReady(SuggestOracle.Request request,
SuggestOracle.Response response) {
//i dunno
//sb.setText("*"); // this works but it's
kludgey. i'd rather do it another way
}
});
}
}
});

So I think I'm missing something somewhere...how do I trigger
SuggestBox to give me the same response it would give me had I typed
something in?
Thanks....