I’m sorry, but I’m not sure how well my component is going to suit your needs, this is pretty far removed from its standard behavior. If I was tasked with creating your app I don’t think I would use it. A simpler approach may be to use a standard TextArea component and add the required logic/dropDowns/etc.

If after reading this you’re still not convinced, here are some pointers…

1. The items shown in the AutoComplete are really just Button with the toggle property set to true (this can be seen in the SelectedItem class). You should be able to loop the FlowBox’s children to determine which item is selected.

2. You could try listening to the searchChange event (which fires when the user enters text) and adding some custom logic. Alternatively, you may be able to dynamically change the filterFunction. You could selectively make it so that no matches are found which in theory should turn on/off the AutoComplete.

Hope this helps

First of all thank you for this component.

I’m kind of new to flex and all its wonder so excuse me if my questions are strange or hard to understand (some times I have a hard time understanding them myself).

I’m trying to do “another kind” of auto complete then the ones in your examples. In my project we are trying to do a auto complete that should work as the ones in developing programs (ex Eclipse, Netbeans, Flash Builder, ect). I have a set of objects that has attributes (ex object1 has attributes x and y => object1.x and object1.y and object2 has attributes w and h => object2.w and object2.h). I use these objects and its attributes as variables to write formulas (ex object1.x + object2.w).

So to my questions:

1. I need the auto complete to be two levels. The second level of auto complete should depend on which object is selected on the first level. Is this possible? I have experimented with the showDropDown functions but haven’t really worked it out. Any help or an example where some one else has done it would help a lot. I saw in a comment that someone else were trying to do something similar but didn’t find any actual solution.

2. In my TextInput I need to allow characters between the auto complete variables (ex 1.3 * object1.x + 0.5*object2.w ) to make it simple I need the auto complete to “start” when I write an character(a-Z). I’m having problems with this if you could give me a hint on how to solve it would help me a lot because now I’m all lost.

Thank you again and I hope to hear from you.

Using the searchChange event did the trick for my autoComplete, but …… the searchChangeHandler of my ADVANCEDAutoComplete (next view state) fires spontaneously on Application start!!!!!

When I get the data first (the full data collection), all goes well. But now I use the autoComplete.change event to get a selection based on the searchText. However, in the change eventhandler function the autoComplete.searchText appears to be an empty string (which gives me the full data collection instead of a selection) and the call search() does NOT show the dropdown list.
What am I doing wrong here?

The best way to look for solutions is to reference the documentation page as well as the ASDoc files (which are linked to at the top of the documentation page). If you can’t find the answer though I”m happy to try to answer your questions.

Thanks for your reply.

And yes, autoselectenabled=false does prevent entering single words. However, when I want to insert a sentence with one or more comma’s, it keeps entering the unfinished sentence on typing the comma. Is there a way around this? Or is this just one more stupid question…..?
I wish I could look for a solution myself, but I wouldn’t know where to look.