autoselect first entry in paper-autocomplete

[Sedrunum]

Would it be possible to autoselect the first entry in the paper-autocomplete suggestions' list before any selection by the user as occured? This would make it possible to select this entry with one click on enter without having to use the arrow keys to select the entry in beforehand.

[miguelcobain]

Try to use a computed property on selected property.

Example:

selected: computed('options.[]', function() {
  let options = this.get('options');
  return options.get('length') ? options.get('firstObject') : null;
})

Not sure if this will work if options is a promise.

[xomaczar]

Do you mean something like defaultHighlighted option ember-power-select has support for. http://ember-power-select.com/docs/api-reference

[Sedrunum]

@miguelcobain What if I solely use the search attribute but not the options property
@xomaczar Yes, default highlighting is what I'm looking for but I'd like to stay inside ember-paper components.

[xomaczar]

@Sedrunum should be straight forward to expose as we rely on eps primitives throughout

[xomaczar]

@miguelcobain what are your thoughts about exposing this as public API

[miguelcobain]

@xomaczar i think defaultHighlighted is quite different from what @Sedrunum was looking for.

He was looking for a default selection and defaultHighlighted is just the property that is highlighted when you open the dropdown. Am I missing something?

[xomaczar]

@miguelcobain from what I understand he wants to minimize the number of keypresses required to select an item. Currently, to select any items will require at least two keypresses (ArrowDown + Enter). If an item is highlighted when the dropdown opens up - will require only Enter to select it.
@Sedrunum correct me if I’m missing something

[Sedrunum]

@xomaczar Exactly. This is what I'm looking for.

[Houndsto0th]

Is this still being discussed or will it be exposed as public API?

[xomaczar]

Submit a PR with the feat.

[Houndsto0th]

I've opened a PR to remove that null declaration so users can interact with the defaultHighlighted property. #901 it looks like it failed a check that all other PRs are failing at the moment

[xomaczar]

@Sedrunum ember-paper supports defaultHighlighted option similar to e-p-s. This can be closed.