Event description

[TylParticipant]

Hi,

Most of the event bindings return an Event object, but I couldn’t find any description of the attributes of the Event.
The only thing we know is that we can access the item with event.args.item.
But the item that I get doesn’t contain my original object.

The declaration
$("#movie_search").jqxInput({ placeHolder: "Enter a movie title", displayMember: "title"});

Setting the source

    var movie_list = new Array();
    var movie = {"id_movie": 5, "title": 'Tron'};
    movie_list.push(movie);
    $("#movie_search").jqxInput({source: movie_list});

select event (where I cannot get my item)

$('#movie_search').on('select', function (event) {
  var item = event.args.item;
  alert("Title = " + item.title); // this gives me "Title = undefined"
}

[TylParticipant]

I would like to add a precison.
I am aware of the displayMember and valueMember attributes, and they would be sufficient if I only had to get only one attribute from my movie object, but actually the movie object contains more attributes and I have to get them all, that’s why I would like to get the whole movie object in the returned item.

[Peter StoevKeymaster]

Hi Tyl,

The object is not included in the event arguments, just the displayMember and valueMember if specified and they are accessible through the label and value members of the returned item object. When you have the label and value and would like to find the data source object, then you will need to use the dataAdapter’s records array and loop through it to find the matching data source object comparing for example the data source object’s “title” with the item’s label.

Best Regards,
Peter Stoev

jQWidgets Team
http://www.jqwidgets.com

[TylParticipant]

Thanks Peter, that’s the solution I choosed.

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