1.7.4 comments

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
03 Dec 2002 22:04:17 -0500


Matthew Vanecek <mevanecek@yahoo.com> writes:

> How does the auto-complete work in the register?  Would that be hard to
> duplicate in whatever 1 or 2 fields that autocomplete is needed in
> here?  That's pulled from the cached results too, isn't it?  And my bank
> account certainly has more than 200 entries in it!

The auto-complete strings in the register is obtained from the cached
splits; the splits are pulled into the register from the Query.  The
point is that it's only uses cached entries -- it does not pre-fetch
data from the backend in order to store it in the auto-complete
buffers.

> Matthew Vanecek <mevanecek@yahoo.com>

-derek

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord@MIT.EDU                        PGP key available