[development] "Subclassing" the standard #autocomplete form widget

[Yves CHEDEMOIS]

Rob Thorne a ecrit le 18/01/2007 22:41:
> 
> I'm guessing that the CCK folks did it for the same reason I did:  it 
> didn't require mucking with the JavaScript, and it does work.
> 
> I was thinking there was a better way to do this, but the fact the CCK 
> did the same thing I did before suggests that some hacks are just better 
> than others.
> 

As a matter of fact, I tried to come up with a better solution than the 
[nid] thing (my motto was "nid should stay out of the user's eyes")
see http://drupal.org/node/62498#comment-114723 for historical records.

I even submitted a generic attempt for Core over there : 
http://drupal.org/node/80565
(on double checking, it seems you commented there some time ago - or is 
that another Rob ?)
This did not get much success - I'm not sure it was a good idea to begin 
with, or maybe it was but I did it wrong.

So i got back to the [nid] hack. Still not really happy with it, though.

Yves