Programmatic combo box throws exception with wildcard usage

[guest]

Hi,

I encounter problems using the programmatic instantiation of comboboxes. So far, instantiation works fine. However, when I try to filter the dropdown content with a wildcard (just by typing "*") the firefox console reports an "invalid quantifier *". The error is reproducable in the current dijit tests at: ​http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/dojotoolkit/dijit/tests/form/test...

(Try typing * in the "combo created by createWidget").

The error does not occur when the ComboBox? is instantiated by the onloadParser using the dojoType attribute on the input element. (ComboBox? #1 in the test)

Can anybody clarify if this is a bug ?

[bill]

You shouldn't need to type a *. If you want to get all the values that start with "ca", just type "ca". I suppose that typing * itself doesn't work because it gets converted to a search for "" but not sure if that's worth fixing. Marking as 2.0 for now.

[guest]

Ok then, but why does it work if the widget is created by the parser and why not if it is created with the "new" operator. Furthermore even if the wildcard is not supposed to work it should not create a javascript execption that pops up to the end-user. At least this should be fixed, otherwise users would be quite confused.

[haysmark]

Probably should reconsider the use of regular expressions in the 0.9 version of ComboBox?. There have been a lot of tickets like this.

[Douglas Hays]

I don't see the error message in the firebug console on 1.0.1 or 1.1 (FF2 on winxp).

[Adam Peller]

looks like a 'worksforme' rather than a 'fixed'?