I want to use a VWG combo box, but have it populate with a list from a database. That is easy, and I believe when I type a few characters it narrows the list. But I wish to have it be more intuitive like in Windows, where if I arrow down the list and hit the delete key, the item would disappear and I could send this information to the database to remove the item. Is there a different VWG control to use for this, and/or a custom combo box available? It would be great if when hitting delete the combo box would not have to refresh. Do I have to get into Ajax here?
Better yet, this really is about adding multiple email addresses to a text field (or combo box). So ideally, it would work like Microsoft Outlook. With Outlook, you start typing an email address and it pops up with a list of matches. Then you can click on the email address, and it add a semicolon. Then you can start typing again to get the next one, and the combo box shows up, properly aligned to where the user is typing. And a nice "x" shows up next to each email address to remove it from the list (ultimately, from the database). Not sure how to duplicate. If I have a custom combo box drop down a form, I could have a form showing the email addresses, possibly in user controls with an "x" button to remove.
Also, it looks like a custom solution might partially solve:
http://visualwebgui.com/Developers/KB/tabid/654/article/handling_keypress_events_on_a_vwg_textbox_using_a_client_side_timer/Default.aspx
Has this solution been integrated more into the latest Visual Web GUI build?
By the way, the above demo does not seem to work. I don't know if it needs to use older Gizmox dlls, but testing the specific textbox that should be firing WHILE the user is typing does not work. Ryan should be contacted about this one.
A little help on the best way to create all this?