Ajax.Autocompleter with an empty field

Rails
1

Hey guys,

I have a field that will have very few autocomplete options. I have
an ajax.autocompleter on it that works great, but I wanted to make it
start autocompleting as soon as the field is blur()ed, so that even
if the field is empty, the list will still appear. Like a combo box
in windows. How can I do this? Setting :min_chars => 0 (or even -1)
didn’t work…

-Josh

2

checkout the “frequency” option:

http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Ajax.Autocompleter

3

Chaz_Meister_Rock wrote:

checkout the “frequency” option:

http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Ajax.Autocompleter

Well, that didn’t work. But it made me realize that :min_chars isn’t
working, either! My code is:

<%=
text_field_with_auto_complete :the_object, :project_name, {}
{:with =>
“‘client=’+$F(‘the_object_client_id’)+‘&’+value”,
:min_chars => 3,
:frequency => 0.1
}
%>

Yet even with :min_chars => 3, the text filed auto completes with one
char…

Am I doing this wrong?