# Value List Update Display in Real Time

**URL:** <https://forum.servoy.com/t/value-list-update-display-in-real-time/18158>\
**Category:** Classic Servoy\
**Created:** [September 8, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/value-list-update-display-in-real-time/18158 "2014-09-08T22:12:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![akaash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@akaash](https://forum.servoy.com/u/akaash)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/value-list-update-display-in-real-time/18158/1 "2014-09-08T22:12:41Z")

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Hi all,

I’m calling a google maps API through Servoy and I’m trying to mimic the same UX as when you’re typing an address in google maps. It performs a search on keystrokes that are more than 1s apart using the keyListeners plugin and returns me a set of addresses in an array. I then build a value list using the returned search results. Unfortunately, even though the value list is constantly rebuilding as I type (with keystrokes 1s apart), it’s not displaying in the UI. Does anyone know of a way I can have the changing value list values display without doing a focus loss/gain on the text field? I tried recreate UI and update UI, neither of these work.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,  
Akaash

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**Author:** ![ROCLASI](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.servoy.com/roclasi/32/4371_2.png) [@ROCLASI](https://forum.servoy.com/u/ROCLASI)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 7:27am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/value-list-update-display-in-real-time/18158/2 "2014-09-09T07:27:04Z")

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Hi Akaash,

I don’t think you can use the value list approach without doing the focus lost/gained technique. It only loads it the moment you give it the focus.

Another way would be to mimic the typeahead list by using a HTML\_AREA field attached to a form global. Here you render the list using your array and show/hide it accordingly.  
If you want to be real fancy you could also use a dialog without chrome (no borders) (or else just a tab-less tabpanel) and put a list/table view on it but that might be overkill for your purpose.

Hope this helps.