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Wednesday, December 07, 2005

The AJAX-enabled Index Popup beta

I've been working on a new incarnation of the Index Popup for Inmagic WebPublisher, which pages index lists and for fun, fetches pages the AJAX way. (Updates page content without refreshing the entire page.) This allowed me to create a find-as-you-type search box which acts like Google Suggest. Unbelievably satisfying. Also new is: i) ability to set field label different than field name; ii) selection builder so selections don't 'disappear'; iii) adjustable page size, and; iv) more. I'd like to do the same for validation lists, but they don't have a paging mechanism. And I won't go into the occult techniques I had to employ to get the index lists to page the way I wanted. Who knew backwards paging would be a herculean labour? Still, I'm very happy with it.

1 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Will this new popup you've developed work with really large textbases? Or are we still going to have to use the InMagic Word Wheels for that? The IM ones have just gotten horrific -- they take forever to load (just the buttons, loading the Java or whatever when you first open the query screen) and if you make the mistake of clicking in a text box before the buttons are done doing their thing, the whole page crashes. Frustrating!

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