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SymbolixAU / googleway

R Package for accessing and plotting Google Maps
http://symbolixau.github.io/googleway/
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google search textbox cum selectizeinput #213

Closed chrisvwn closed 4 years ago

chrisvwn commented 4 years ago

Is it possible to either create a shiny equivalent of the google map search textbox or simulate the functionality of the google map search textbox with existing components? That is:

  1. Creates dropdown of possible results of the typed in value
  2. Update choices as the user types (maybe when the user stops typing for 1-2 sec then update choices to prevent too many queries?)
  3. Can accept typed in value even if no matching values are found directly

I have tried to use selectizeInput and dqshiny::autocomplete_input but these do not allow the capture of text while typing - only by choosing a dropdown value.

Some similar questions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53347495/r-shiny-map-search-input-box

SymbolixAU commented 4 years ago

In theory this is what googleway::google_place_auotcomplete() is supposed to do. However, I've never quite got it working as it's supposed to.

There's also this other question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54848254/shinydashboard-google-places-autocomplete-invalidvalueerror-not-an-instance-o

But other than that I don't have a solution.

chrisvwn commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the response @SymbolixAU. This is indeed not a simple problem.

chrisvwn commented 4 years ago

@SymbolixAU Please see a possible solution to this issue, although it uses another package. I have tested it a little and it seems to work quite nicely. https://github.com/daqana/dqshiny/issues/7#issuecomment-562131296