What would you use this element for, in real life applications ?
Any examples ?
I already used it in an application where I have a select box of more than 100 clients, each option being represented by a string containing both the reference and the name of the client.
I can type part of the reference or part of the name of the client, and the select box is filtered to show me only a part of the list. It is then easier to select the one I want. (maybe you have already noticed that if there is only one value left, it is automagically selected).
This is just a real life example, I have already seen many people interrested in this component for other usages in web applications. Imagine this used to filter a list of countries, or a list of artists, or whatever you need to have in a list with more than 10 options.
The good thing IMHO is that it is just a facility, you don't *have to* use the filter in order to make the selection.
I prefer this to another solution that many people use: popups with lists of values, and inactive text fields in the form that are filled in with the value selected in the popup.
-Nicolas
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