[cpscdave]

Hi all

I've written a function to do an autocomplete on some input forms

function getPartAutoComplete(str, field)
{
	ajax = getAjaxHandler();
	
	url = base + "parts/ajax_part_list/" + str +"/" + field;
	ajax.onreadystatechange = function(){
		if(ajax.readyState == 4){
			document.getElementById("autoSuggestionsList_"+field).innerHTML=ajax.responseText;
			//alert(ajax.responseText);
		}
	}
	ajax.open("GET", url, true);
	ajax.send(null); 
}

The problem is if the user types in a bunch of characters it does a bunch of searches that aren't actually used.

EG:
Say the user searches for drip.
There will be a search on dri and drip and the first one gets ignored.

Is there a way when it goes into the function to search for drip to kill hte dri search in progress?

It's not really an issue on this site, I'm more curious for myself

[MMJ]

try ajax.abort

[cpscdave]

how can I tell when another ajax call has started?

There is no concept of static varibles inside of Javascript so each seperate call will have it's on unique ajax handler