Bug 258303 - [FieldAssist] Field assist on empty fields
Summary: [FieldAssist] Field assist on empty fields
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform UI Triaged CLA
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Reported: 2008-12-10 11:32 EST by Oleg CLA
Modified: 2017-12-15 13:04 EST (History)
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Description Oleg CLA 2008-12-10 11:32:54 EST 
Currently, field assist popup does not appear automatically on empty fields.
This request is to provide an API to change that behavior ( e.g. ContentProposalAdapter.showAssistWhenEmpty(true) ).

Keep in mind that this request covers two situations:
1. The user moves the keyboard focus into an empty field (by using the mouse or the <tab> key)
2. The user types something in the field and then deletes it.

Thank you.
Comment 1 Susan McCourt CLA 2009-07-09 18:20:17 EDT 
As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009
Comment 2 Hernan Gonzalez CLA 2017-12-15 13:04:44 EST 
I strongly agree with this.

In many scenarios, especially when the proposal list is short the desired behaviour is to show the list for empty fields.

For example, the JQuery autocomplete widget http://api.jqueryui.com/autocomplete/
has a minLength parameter to tune this.