[CLOSED] Replace jquery smart autocomplete with a more robust solution

core-ai-bot commented 3 years ago

Issue by tvoliter Wednesday Feb 29, 2012 at 18:57 GMT Originally opened as https://github.com/adobe/brackets/issues/333

See todo in QuickFileOpen.js

Currently jquery smart autocomplete (http://laktek.com/2011/03/03/introducing-jquery-smart-autocomplete/) is used as an auto suggest list in Brackets. While this mostly works for QuickFileOpen there are some limitations so it's likely we will want to replace this component with a more robust solution when our need for an auto complete component grows.

Issues with jquery smart autocomplete

only accepts an array of strings. A list of objects is preferred to avoid some work arounds to display both the path and filename.
the popup position logic has flaws that require css work-arounds
the popup properties cannot be modified once the object is constructed

core-ai-bot commented 3 years ago

Comment by jlondon Monday Mar 05, 2012 at 19:43 GMT

This is already document in the code so closing.

core-ai-bot commented 3 years ago

Comment by peterflynn Tuesday Apr 07, 2015 at 20:00 GMT

Only 3 years later, this has now been done ;-) The new Quick Open dropdown implementation will ship in 1.3

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[CLOSED] Replace jquery smart autocomplete with a more robust solution #331