AutoCompleteBox - How to "accept" undelimited text when focus is lost

[Dan]

I've read all the Methods, Properties, etc. and have now given up.

How do I "force" the AutoCompleteBox to process the last remaining text in the text box as if the user had actually typed in a ";" at the end.  Specifically, when loosing focus, my users are not always entering in the delimiter ";" that then causes the control to tokenize the last word(s) they entered into the control.  On loss of focus, I would like to see if there is any non-tokenized text in the control and then process/tokenize it.

I have tried hacking around by sending the control a ";" via SendKeys.Send(";") but that simply did not work (it was a horrible hack anyway).  Any great ideas would be appreciated.

[Giovanni]

I have a similar problem, i.e. how to access to current untokenized string.
At the moment I used a workaround using this code:

If Me.TxtValue.CaretIndex > 0 Then

    Try

        Dim searchingText As String = Me.TxtValue.Text.Substring(0, Math.Min(Me.TxtValue.CaretIndex, Me.TxtValue.Text.Length))

        Dim pos As Integer = Math.Max(0, searchingText.LastIndexOf(";"c))

        ' Delete current untokenized text

        Me.TxtValue.Select(pos, Me.TxtValue.CaretIndex - pos)

        Me.TxtValue.Delete()

    Catch

    End Try

End If

Me.TxtValue.AppendText(valueToSave & ";"c)

But like you, I hope to know a better way,

[Svett]

Hello Guys,

@Dan: You can use the approach suggested by the Giovanni.

@Gioavanni: Thank you for your community effort. I have updated your Telerik points for your time and efforts.
 
Kind regards,
Svett
the Telerik team

[Dan]

I've used something very similar to Giovanni's method (thanks!).  In hindsight, my hack was horrible ;)

Please add a request for the development team to have an "auto submit" feature such that on loss of focus, whatever existing text the user has typed in is processed as if it was delimited.  That would improve the usability of this control ten fold.

Thanks much!

[Svett]

Hello Dan,

Thank you for your suggestion. We will consider it if we receive more requests about the same functionality. For the time being, feel free to use the approach discussed. 
 
Greetings,
Svett
the Telerik team

[Fraser Tustian]

+1 request from me

This functionality is pretty critical

[Dimitar]

Hi Fraser,

Thank you for your request. We will consider it in future control improvements.

Regards,
Dimitar
Telerik