Comments on: GWT SuggestBox backed by DTO Model

By: Tank Removal NJ

Tank Removal NJ — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:02:18 +0000

Cracking article.

By: اختصاص فضا

اختصاص فضا — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:12:28 +0000

Very well executed article!

By: Zied Hamdi

Zied Hamdi — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:05:49 +0000

You can also use a ready to use library with a recognition mecanism of known values (when the user types a value that is equal to a toString( DTO value ) in your Suggest box implementation, then the DTO is passed when you call getValue().

This is not the only feature, there are many extention points, to have complex representations of your DTO, multivalued selection, icons on your values etc… I recommand you take a look at this lib: http://code.google.com/p/advanced-suggest-select-box/

Best Regards,
Zied Hamdi

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:47:36 +0000

Hi,
Thanks a lot for this, it’s very helpful.
I have an issue though. What if a user refuses to click on the suggest but type a valid entry? This could happen with any suggest in a form, the user knows what he wants, type it, then go to another field without bothering clicking on the suggest. In that case the event is never trigger and we have no way to retrieve the ID.
Do you have any solution for this?
Thanks!

By: cometta

cometta — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:17:07 +0000

i want to add a submit button. how do i get the entries keyed into the suggestionbox by user?

submitButton.addClickHandler(new ClickHandler() {
@Override
public void onClick(ClickEvent event) {

// box.WhatMethodtocalltogetEntriesSelectedByUser..?

}
});

By: Altug

Altug — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:37:30 +0000

Hi,

That’s absolutely no problem. You were not too slow or too late

I am writing a blogpost about how I solved the issue and I’m referencing your post. Thank you very much again.

You can see the post here: http://altuginplainenglish.blogspot.com/2010/06/gwt-suggestbox-filled-with-any-object.html

Best wishes,
Altug

By: admin

admin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:00:59 +0000

Hi there,

Sorry I haven’t replied sooner.

Thank you for your comments glad you have got your issue sorted

By: Altug

Altug — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:54:37 +0000

Hello again,

I found the functionality solution. In the Oracle Class, the added items were too few. Now I changed it to “suggestions.get(i).getDisplayString().toLowerCase().contains(prefixToMatch)” and it also takes some other items in the suggestion.

Thank you very much for your blogpost.

Best wishes,
Altug

By: Altug

Altug — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:16:31 +0000

Hello,

first of all, thank you very much for your post. It helped me so much.

My problem(s) is(are) as follows: I am filling my SuggestBox which takes some objects and they it is being filled correctly. Then, if I want to use it, it always shows me one suggestion at a time, despite extending MultiWordSuggestOracle. I do not get the other suggestions match with the query. Secondly, the white space does not work for me, I always get the first letters matching. And thirdly, I do not get the bold matching query in the suggestion’s displaystring.

any idea how I can fix these?

Thanks in advance,
Altug

By: admin

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:25:09 +0000

Hi there,

Glad you found it useful and thank you for the nice comments.

I wrote the post when GWT was on version 1.4 – I think since then they have improved the event handling so well done for sorting that out

Eggsy