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

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  1. Dan
    Dan avatar
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    Feb 2012

    Posted 23 Nov 2012 Link to this post

    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.

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    Giovanni
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    Feb 2011

    Posted 26 Nov 2012 Link to this post

    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,

  5. Svett
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    Posted 28 Nov 2012 Link to this post

    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
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  7. Dan
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    Feb 2012

    Posted 28 Nov 2012 Link to this post

    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!
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  9. Svett
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    Posted 30 Nov 2012 Link to this post

    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
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  11. Fraser Tustian
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    Posted 28 May 2014 in reply to Svett Link to this post

    +1 request from me

    This functionality is pretty critical
  13. Dimitar
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    Posted 30 May 2014 Link to this post

    Hi Fraser,

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

    Regards,
    Dimitar
    Telerik
     
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