How can a get a "selected" event when a suggested item is selected from list?

[justgoscha]

How can a get a "selected" event when a suggested item is selected from list?

[davidmh]

Can you elaborate?

Yes, thank you! I want to use $http to fetch a list of results based on a few form fields.

For simplicity, let's say we want to search for friends:

Home town _____________ (uses allmighty-autocomplete)
First name _________
Gender M/F

I want this form to update results when anything is changed -- but not with every on-type event in the hometown field -- only when a real city is selected from the list of autocomplete suggestions.

Any way to do this?

[davidmh]

That functionality it's not implemented yet, but it could be easily incorporated.

You could add a callback around here.

Thanks so much for the response — I’ll see what I can do. Meanwhile perhaps you can consider this an official “feature request” :-)

Thanks!

On May 13, 2014, at 4:47 PM, Chuck [email protected] wrote:

That functionality it's not implemented yet, but it could be easily incorporated.

You could add a callback around here.

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Would you be so kind as to point me a bit further in the right direction? I tried calling my controller method directly from the point in the code where you showed me -- bit the method can't be found. I suspect it's out of scope but not sure how to address it properly. I'm simply trying to run a method named "updateProviders()" which is in my formCtrl controller. Any tips for an NG newbie? Thanks :-)

[davidmh]

You're right, the function it's out of the scope, you need to make a connection between your app's scope and this directive.

You can add a new attribute to specify the function to be referenced, and the invoking it where you need it.

You can see that exact example with the on-type parameter in the directive attributes.

Declaration for the scope and invokation

[davidmh]

Hey @df-sean, what did you end up using?

If you haven't done it yet, I could give it a shot.

Thank you so much for following up. A few hours ago, I followed your example and managed to get it going. Thanks again!

[davidmh]

Cool, you should send a pull request, it would be really useful to have that functionality.

Pull request issued — cheers!