Best way to fire event after autocomplete is selected?

[JohnMcLear]

What's the best way to do this? I want to fire

setAttributeOnLine(thisLineNumber, 'context', selectedValue);

[jdittrich]

I currently do not deal very much with etherpad plugin programming (sadly), but I see what I can do.

To clarify:

1. selected means "an autocomplete option is selected and enter was just pressed (it will be inserted now) OR "user navigated in the autocomplete options with ↓↑ keys to choose another entry to be inserted when enter is pressed"?
2. The setAttributeOnLine-Event seems to be undocumented. Is that right or did I oversee it? (It seems not to be in my code and neither is it in the manual, it seems)
3. If I interpret this correctly, firing this even would inform the other authors that you just did a selection (of which nature I am unsure, see 1.)

[JohnMcLear]

1. Selected as in the user chooses that suggestion
2. That's probably something I need to sort -.-
3. I basically want to perform an event that another plugin currently does... It adds a like attribute..

On 12 Jun 2016 20:26, jdittrich [email protected] wrote:

I currently do not deal very much with etherpad plugin programming (sadly), but I see what I can do.

To clarify:

1. selected means "an autocomplete option is selected and enter was just pressed (it will be inserted now) OR "user navigated in the autocomplete options with ↓↑ keys to choose another entry to be inserted when enter is pressed"?
2. The setAttributeOnLine-Event seems to be undocumented. Is that right or did I oversee it? (It seems not to be in my code and neither is it in the manual, it seems)
3. If I interpret this correctly, firing this even would inform the other authors that you just did a selection (of which nature I am unsure, see 1.)

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[jdittrich]

OK that helps along.

So it would help you if I point out at which part of the code that event could be fired? Like "I suggest line 42 in examplefile.js, since the function somefunc is always executed when a user selects an entry"

Would something like this be OK? – I assume that then you could try to insert a that event-firing code at the suggested position.

[jdittrich]

• Text is entered after a user selects a suggestion in selectSuggestion
• The selection of an entry in the list of possible autocompletes happens via moveSelectionUp and moveSelectionDown

→ if it is about selecting with the ↓↑ keys, there is not one function, but the up- and the down-function that need to be considered.

All of the mentioned functions are in /static/js/autocomp.js

[lpagliari]

@JohnMcLear do you want to autocomplete too? I mean, when the user selects a suggestion do you want sendkeys to be called, besides setting the line attribute as you mentioned on your original question?

If you don't want that to happen, I would suggest to change autocomp.js to be configured with a custom behavior besides the default one (call sendkeys and change the pad text). You could extract this code into a "default behavior" and return suggestionText on the selectSuggestion method, instead of a boolean. You can find custom options here.

Does that help you?