Ticket #330 (new Defect)
allow interactive manipulation of a result-set in a select-menu through typing
| Reported by: | Malte | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | Major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | DeepaMehta Standard Distribution | Version: | 4.0.12 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Complexity: | 3 | Area: | GUI / Usability |
| Module: | deepamehta-webclient |
Description
up to selecting on item out of many, just through typing its name and possible use the arrow-keys additonally.
typing to narrow down current selection should neither interfer with ordinary users default behaviour of using a mouse to select an item among many - nor it should need a trigger.
first step could be, since all result-lists are ordered alphabetically, one could just use the first letter to allow users jumping through lists by programmatic scrolling.
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This is a community blog-post of the mite developers how they did and why they iterated over their first design/implementation: http://blog.yo.lk/en/2012/11/12/select-a-la-mite
They chose chosen to do so http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/
Theses resources might be interesting to have in mind when talking about this feature again.