Ability to listen to various events that aren't currently exposed

[trickeyone]

I'm having to directly add a listener to the input element to listen for blur events so I can do a proper check for if a new value has actually been selected, either by hitting "Enter" or by clicking. It would be nice if there was an event for when the dropdown is closed, this way I know that the user is done.

[ezequiel]

Good point! How does onDropdownOpen and onDropdownClose sound?

[trickeyone]

Sounds good to me. Maybe supply another passthrough for onBlur for the actual input element, too?

[ezequiel]

@trickeyone Thanks for the feedback. I've added the props onBlur, onDropdownOpen, and onDropdownClose in 0.5.0. Let me know if they work as expected. 🚀

Just as a note, blur is fired on Enter, or when an option is clicked, or when the user clicks somewhere outside of Typeahead

[trickeyone]

Thanks, @ezequiel ! They look to work well. After a bit of messing around last week, the approach I ended up taking, actually, was to listen for the key down event on the input element. When the user pressed Enter, I looked for an update or when the used selected an option.

My case may be unique but the typeahead is being used as a search/suggestion display rather than a direct change to the input, so I needed to be able to wait for an actual selection from the dropdown list, thus the reason I need to actually listen for the "Enter" key being pressed and not the input element being blurred. I thought blurring would be sufficient but it did not supply the needed granularity to discern if a change had occurred. At this stage, adding an onEnter or onKeyDown (vs onKeyUp since the "Enter" key is not caught) would be more beneficial in my particular case.

As a note, the "Enter" key isn't being cause by the onKeyUp event because of the blur being called from your internal onKeyDown listener, hence my needing to listen for the same event.

[kushal]

This widget is great, but I have a similar need to @trickeyone. I'd expect there to be an onOptionSelected which is fired either when Enter is pressed or when the user selects an option by clicking.