Combo Box (+AJAX?)

I'm helping a client of mine with a form project... what I thought was a simple drop down list turned out to be a "combo box" - for example, in MS Access: a field that allows drop down listings as well as text entry.

Ideally, after entry of a few characters, a list would drop down from the field with a few matching entries.

Right now I've worked out how to populate a drop down field with values from a text/csv file thanks to Bob. Now I need to take it further by including more interactivity. How difficult would it be duplicate this functionality into Chronoforms? I'm thinking AJAX would be one way, but would it be the only way?

Thanks in advance!

Hi kai920,

You can probably do this in JavaScript but I wouldn't know where to start. Can you find an example?

Bob

hi Bob,

Should have included a link - I'm thinking of something like this:

http://www.dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxCombo/index.shtml

Hi Kai920,

This one looks as though it should be possible to drop into ChronoForms and there's a database driven version here.

Bob