Load on Demand and AllowCustomText

[Jonathan]

Hi,

This feature where if you want load on demand functionality automatically enables AllowCustomText has killed the use of RadComboBox for me.  If you have a large list of items to select from and dont want to load the entire list, but instead force the user to type the starting letters of the item they want, is there any way to stop them from submitting a custom text entry?  I dont believe hardcoding properties is a reasonable step to take and the original RadComboBox did not have this added feature - it clears the text if no matches are found.

Is there any way around this?

[Nikolay]

Hello Jonathan,

You could do the following to achieve your task:

1. Disable the EnableLoadOnDemand property
2. Hook on the OnClientDropDownOpening event and call the requestItems() method of the combobox by passing the enetered text as a parameter:
   sender.requestItems(sender.get_text());
   Thus, you will be able to filter the items by the entered text using the e.Text property in the ItemsRequested event handler.
3. Disable the AllowCustomText
4. Enable the MarkFirstMatch property

Hope this is acceptable for you.

regards,
Nick
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[Jonathan]

Thanks for the suggestion Nick, I will try it out and report back.

Thanks again.

[Chris]

Would you be able to provide sample for my reference? I tried to follow your step but nothing happens from the latest prometheus version.

[Nikolay]

Hi Chris,

Attached, please find a small and running project on the matter. Download the files and give them a go.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Nick
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[harun küçük]

thansk for your suggestion Nick. It is running. now