I have worked up an alternative for you, that uses a listview, Taifun's Textbox extension, Ken's ClickEvent extension, and Vsatish's OverlapView extension
This works to hide the dropdown when empty, and filters just like the autocomplete. The click event will allow a long click to show the drop down when the textbox is empty.
Here is an aia project for you to play with....
autoTextBoxSearch.aia (32.9 KB)


