dojox/form/MultiComboBox.js

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define([
	"dojo/_base/kernel",
	"dijit/form/ValidationTextBox",
	"dijit/form/ComboBoxMixin",
	"dojo/_base/declare"
], function(kernel, ValidationTextBox, ComboBoxMixin, declare){
kernel.experimental("dojox.form.MultiComboBox");

return declare("dojox.form.MultiComboBox", [ValidationTextBox, ComboBoxMixin],{
	// summary:
	//		A ComboBox that accepts multiple inputs on a single line

	// delimiter: String
	//		The character to use to separate items in the ComboBox input
	delimiter: ",",

	_previousMatches: false,

	_setValueAttr: function(value){
		if(this.delimiter && value.length != 0){
			value = value+this.delimiter+" ";
			arguments[0] = this._addPreviousMatches(value);
		}
		this.inherited(arguments);
	},

	_addPreviousMatches: function(/*String*/ text){
		if(this._previousMatches){
			if(!text.match(new RegExp("^"+this._previousMatches))){
				text = this._previousMatches+text;
			}
			text = this._cleanupDelimiters(text);
		}
		return text; // String
	},

	_cleanupDelimiters: function(/*String*/ text){
		if(this.delimiter){
			text = text.replace(new RegExp("  +"), " ");
			text = text.replace(new RegExp("^ *"+this.delimiter+"* *"), "");
			text = text.replace(new RegExp(this.delimiter+" *"+this.delimiter), this.delimiter);
		}
		return text;
	},

	_autoCompleteText: function(/*String*/ text){
		arguments[0] = this._addPreviousMatches(text);
		this.inherited(arguments);
	},

	_startSearch: function(/*String*/ text){
		text = this._cleanupDelimiters(text);
		var re = new RegExp("^.*"+this.delimiter+" *");

		if((this._previousMatches = text.match(re))){
			arguments[0] = text.replace(re, "");
		}
		this.inherited(arguments);
	}
});
});