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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Aug 10, 2020 08:51 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 06:17 PM:

Sure, " @-" it is not a comlplete move. Like "L c3-" is not a complete move. That is the entire idea of moving by mouse clicks: you first get a partial move in the the movefield, and then you click on the destination square to complete it, and the script sends it to the server.

That's a different context. You were suggesting it be placed in the legalMoves array, which is an array of complete moves.

I am not sure what you mean by 'auto-complete', also because the Play function that I have been using doesn't seem to have it.

It does have it unless you are using an old browser with inadequate support for HTML5.

But if you mean the drop-down menu of moves that appear when one clicks the movefield in Move mode... there doesn't seem to be anything 'auto' on that.

As you type in a move, it narrows down the list of moves to those that might match it.

'Auto-complete' usually means that when you enter a partial move that can only be completed in a single way, the interface does that for you, without you having to do anything at all.

In the context of entering text into a text input field in an HTML form, which is the proper context to think of it in, autocomplete makes suggestions for you as you type. See HTML <datalist> Tag and HTML <input> autocomplete Attribute, where this term is used. By default, autocomplete draws its suggestions from what you have entered into the same field in the past. But for games that supply a list of legal moves, it now draws its suggestions solely from this list.


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