sissbruecker / flex-auto-complete

An auto complete input for Flex 4 with some customizability through custom item renderer, label field/function, filter function and sort.

An auto complete input for Flex 4 (Spark), based on the component found here: http://flashcommander.org/blog/flex-4-autocomplete. I cleaned up the code, removed some options that I didn't need and added others. The main difference is that you can now provide an item renderer for the auto complete suggestions.

Some features:

• Possibility to provide custom filter function (AutoComplete.filterFunction), can access (AutoComplete.text) to get the entered text
• Possibility to provide custom sort object (AutoComplete.sort)
• Possibility to provide custom item renderer for the suggestions in the drop-down (AutoComplete.itemRenderer)
• Possibility to provide a label field / function (AutoComplete.labelField, AutoComplete.labelFunction). Used for the display of suggestions if no item renderer is specified, and to complete the text based on the selected suggestion
• Option to clear the text when an item is selected (AutoComplete.clearTextAfterSelection)

Differences to the original component:

• Only opens the drop down when the user starts typing, no option to open on focus
• Escape clears the text and closes drop-down
• Avoids the workaround of using a customized list for dispatching keyboard events to the drop-down
• Default filter function always uses contains on item label, no option to use starts-with