[TYPO3-dev] Make selecting records via AJAX possible (like Google Suggest)

[Martin Kutschker]

Andreas Wolf schrieb:
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> Hi list,
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> I guess you all know things like Google Suggest or the autocompleter
> text fields of script.aculo.us. My idea is to integrate something these
> into TCEforms, so it is easier to select records that are
> wide-spread over the pagetree. I have implemented a first version that
> works and has some features, but the code is still quite ugly
> and it is not that well integrated into the core or even documented -
> and it is done on 4.1, but porting it to 4.2-dev is no problem, the
> patch applies seamlessly.

Good idea!

But I think the lookup field takes too much space if it's always shown. 
Maybe it can be triggered by a button next to the select field. Perhaps 
beneath the element browser button.

Masi