Add Header and Footer template in AutoComplete control.

Currently the SuggestionView does not stay open all the time

I can get it to open on focus by running this code and attaching it to the Focused event

 but if I type in the search bar, like a letter "a", and then backspace to get rid of it so I'm left with an empty string, the SuggestionView disappears. The SuggestionView also disappears if I assign a new list, such as through the Remote Search feature in the documentation while the search text is an empty string. I have gotten around these two issues by adding a dispatcher that will call ShowSuggestions(); after 100 milliseconds but I get this flicker effect where the SuggestionView disappears and then comes back again. It's very jarring.

I have looked in the decompiled RadAutoComplete class in visual studio and it looks like the code is set up so the SuggestionView disappears when the Text is null or empty. I would like a bindableproperty for this control that always keeps the SuggestionView open or a workaround that doesn't cause the SuggestionView to disappear in the above circumstances

If you have an AutoComplete control as the first element of the visual tree of the page, when you open a Popup control, the popup takes the focus and after closing the popup, the focus is set back to the AutoComplete - if there is text in the AutoComplete input, its SuggestionView is shown without user interaction with the control.

For example expose vertical text alignment properties, padding, etc.

 

Hi Team,

I need to know when the SuggestionsView is visible or not. This appears to be independent of the existing events, so I am requesting an official feature for this to be implemented.

I do have a shaky workaround right now, but it is not reliable and this ultimately requires something from the Telerik UI for Maui side to be implemented.

Thank you!

Jiri

For example when adding input controls (entries) inside the NoResultsTemplate, I want to type in the entries but the focus is moved to the Autocomplete control. Same behavior with SuggestionView and SuggestionItem Templates

On macOS the focus is on the Entry inside the templates

When the AutoComplete is placed inside a modal popup, the dropdown can't be closed on WinUI when clicking outside.

Once the suggestions  dropdown for RadAutoComplete is opened, If we click on the Hamburger icon , the suggestion  dropdown does not dismiss at all.