How do you know when a text box has an auto-complete?
January 25, 2011 Leave a comment
I was working with TFS Build when I ran into this screen:
I went to Windows Explorer to get the entire path to CTRL-C/V into the text box when I realized that the text box had an auto-complete feature. This saved me the time to switch between Windows Explorer and TFS, which was good. However, outside of the documentation, how would I know that the text box has auto-complete turned on? Drop Down text boxes have a down arrow by convention, multi-lists have a vertical bar, but there is nothing for auto-complete. When Google introduced auto-complete, it expected a search phrase so they did not include any visual clue:
I am wondering if there should be some kind of visual clue that the text box auto-completes? Perhaps a red-arrow in the far-right of the box? Anyone have any ideas?