Someone knows if ithere is a way to open the valuelist with keyboard ? When the field got the focus the linked list is opened automtically, if i close it open it again is not easy…
Hi Michele,
You are talking about a (non-editable) combobox? Then you can show/hide the valuelist by hitting the spacebar.
Hope this helps.
i’ll try to better explain my problem.
I have a field linked to a valuelist and displayType = TextField
In editing mode when my field gets focus the valuelist is opened automatically, so i select the desired value; once i selected one record and the value is displayed in the field tha valuelist has been closed. Now if i want to open again the list i have to exit the field and then enter again. What i asked is if is there another way to open the list another time witout exiting the field…I have seen that if i set DisplayType=Combobox i can do it, but with combobox i have had problems with setting colors…every color i set in style the combo (when i browse mode) display every time the same color (not the color i want)
You do not need to go outside the filed in order to get the valuelist re-displayed. Valuelist is re-displayed when you erase the text content.
For doing it easier to end user you can :
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set field property SelectOnEnter to On/1/True
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Each time user selects a value form valuelist (onDatChange event) select the text programatically, i.e. :
elements.customerid.selectAll()
Instruct end user to erase selected text to re-display valuelist.
Hope this helps.
In my opinion this is a long standing annoyance and I really hope Servoy is able to fix it in the way that if the user clicks in the field again, the popup should appear again.
As a workaround it may be ok, but we do net get any credits if we teach our users such things just to be able to manage a user interface and tell them at the same time they are having one of the most modern environments/application … Users come more and more to expect good user interfaces which “just work”.
I hope the type ahead field (with value list) get’s some enhancement, as well as a visual indicator to inform the user it’s a value list (like for the Mac it would be 2 little arrows, up/down).
Regards,
+1
We are also getting negative feedback of our customers about the type ahead appearance.
Regards,
+1
++1
+1
So you want the popup to appear when the user clicks in the field again?
When I use google search from google.com , the suggestions given also pop-up, similar to a valuelist-popup.
After selecting a value from that, the popup only appears again when I start typing, similar to Servoy.
That is not the standard behaviour you want?
Here the opposite seems to be requested viewtopic.php?t=16259
Rob
Hi Rob,
My +1 was primarily focused on the type-ahead appearance. Make a visual difference between a text field and a type ahead when the type ahead has not the focus.
Regards,
I was not aware of UICONSTANTS !! ; it solves what I have suggested in my previous post.