[selectFirst] Deleted chars on quick input

[tyx]

Your extension selectFirst works great.

But we met an issue on AJAX autocomplete with a quick entry. Some chars are deleted during my entry. It appears only with this extension activated.

Hope it helps and you may have a solution

[davemyersworld]

I am also having this issue with the plugin. Is there a fix in the works. It is pretty critical.

[davemyersworld]

i made a change to selectFirst that solves the problem deleted chars issue, however, it is not an ideal solution. That being said, if you're interested, it's here:

https://github.com/davemyers/jquery-ui-extensions/blob/master/autocomplete/jquery.ui.autocomplete.selectFirst.js

[jfrux]

Works great dave, thanks for the fix... I had the same issue :) on short delayed autocompletes.

[scottgonzalez]

I can't reproduce this error. Are you able to provide a page showing the problem?

[tyx]

Hi Scott,

Here is a test page : http://staging.api.wishbed.fr/ac.html

Try to enter a long text as "Toulouse" as fast as you can and look the result value in the input

[scottgonzalez]

Thanks, I'm able to reproduce the bug on that test page, though I have no idea what the underlying problem is. I'll be looking into this over the next few weeks as we're trying to merge this into the core of the plugin.

[robmaceachern]

Hey Scott. Was this ever investigated/fixed? I'm also experiencing the same symptoms when using autoFocus:true and a remote source with ui1.8.16 and core1.6.2

Edit: When setting the autocomplete delay to 0, the symptoms seem to go away when using autoFocus:true and remote.

[scottgonzalez]

It was never tracked down. The test page that @tyx provided went down a few days later and we couldn't reproduce it locally.

[scottgonzalez]

There's a bug filed against jQuery UI for this: http://bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/7555

[davemyersworld]

Hey guys, so I don't quite recall the exact problem, but I think it was a race condition, something like this:

• user types letter, ajax request is made
• user types second letter, ajax request is made
• ajax response from first letter comes back
• selectFirst kicks in, selecting the first item, blurring focus on text input
• on blur, jquery UI automatically sets the text input to the queried string AND ignores the second ajax response

I might be off a bit, but that's the general problem

[bmaltzan]

I had this problem with jquery-ui.1.8.16 too.
Upgrading to 1.9.pre fixed it.