struts tag autocompleter with onclick, not working

[Kevin P Smith]

Hi guys

Just wondering if someone could point me quickly into the right direction as to why strut-tags autocompleter onclick is not working?

This is a snippet of my page:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery-1.6.1.js"></script>
<%@taglib uri="/struts-jquery-tags" prefix="sj"%>
...
<script tyle="text/javascript">
   function viewCompanies() {
      ...
   }
</script>
...
<sj:autocompleter onchange="viewCompanies();" id="cmpId" name="cmpId" list="%{companyList}" listKey="id" listValue="name" size="1" />

But the onchange="viewCompanies();" doesn't execute the JS function. Change the autocompleter to use a standard <s:textfield> and it works fine, the problem there is it would
require the user to know the exact name of the parent company which isn't very pratical. Looksing at the API (http://code.google.com/p/struts2-jquery/wiki/AutocompleterTag > onchange) it exists, but doesn't seem to work.

Cheers in advance

[Gilbert Prashant Singh]

I worked on this problem in my project for an entire day....and right when I was about to leave for home, I finally found the solution. So thought of posting it in order to help.
To solve the onchange or onselect problem, sj:sutocompleter provides "Topics" to handle such events. So following is the right way to do it:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $.subscribe('tabOutHappened', function(event,data) { 

        // Your code to enable/disable certain fields
    }); 
</script>

<sj:autocompleter id="institutionListComp"
	list="#institutionAction.approvedInstitutionsJSONList"
	name="requestBean.institution.instituteName"
	cssClass="instituteAutoCompleter"
	onChangeTopics="tabOutHappened"
/>

If you also want onselect event to work then also add:

onSelectTopics="tabOutHappened"

I hope it solves the proble. Cause I simply Love this Struts2-jQuery-Plugin.