Input/output ordering issues

Hey @sa-si-dev , I don’t know how to properly communicate the issue here, because I’m not using virtual-select directly, I’m using it via shinyvs, which uses an R interface passing the parameters to virtual-select as the backend. So I’m sorry about that and I’m hope we can find a way to work around it.

The problem I’m facing is that virtual-select seems to force the input/tooltip label/output order to be the same as the one in value in options . I describe the matter in more details here https://github.com/dreamRs/shinyvs/issues/10 .

Is there a way to make the tooltip labels and the output to follow exactly the order of the input selected? I believe that is the standard behavior of other selectInput tools that I use, and it would be great to have an option to obtain that. virtual-select output order actually follows the input order selected later interactively but not the initial selected order passed to selectedValue.

Thanks a lot

[sa-si-dev]

Hey @sa-si-dev , I don’t know how to properly communicate the issue here, because I’m not using virtual-select directly, I’m using it via shinyvs, which uses an R interface passing the parameters to virtual-select as the backend. So I’m sorry about that and I’m hope we can find a way to work around it.

The problem I’m facing is that virtual-select seems to force the input/tooltip label/output order to be the same as the one in value in options . I describe the matter in more details here https://github.com/dreamRs/shinyvs/issues/10 .

Is there a way to make the tooltip labels and the output to follow exactly the order of the input selected? I believe that is the standard behavior of other selectInput tools that I use, and it would be great to have an option to obtain that. virtual-select output order actually follows the input order selected later interactively but not the initial selected order passed to selectedValue.

Thanks a lot

@GitHunter0 thanks for letting me know it. I will implement it in the future release.

[GitHunter0]

Hey @sa-si-dev , I came back to provide some feedback.

First, thanks again for the work.

I did some tests and I’m still having some issues. Here’s a MWE using R:

library(shiny)
library(shinyvs)

ui <- fluidPage(

  shinyvs::virtualSelectInput(
    inputId = "vs_inputs",
    label = NULL,
    choices = data.frame(
        label = c("lab1","lab2","lab3","lab4", "lab5"),
        value = c("val1","val2","val3","val4", "val5")
      ) |> purrr::transpose(),
    selected = c("val2", "val4", "val1"),
    search = TRUE,
    multiple=TRUE,
    popupDropboxBreakpoint = '5000px',
    showValueAsTags = TRUE,
   ),

  verbatimTextOutput("selected_items")
)

server <- function(input, output, session){
  output$selected_items <- renderText({input$vs_inputs})
}

shiny::shinyApp(ui, server)

Initial screen: output should be val2, val4, val1 (in some previous tests it was correct but not anymore for some unknown reason)

After adding lab3: now the new input order is respected in the tooltip and output, but not in the popup.

Then after closing lab2 by clicking x in tooltip tag, the tooltip and output change the order, so that lab3 and val3 are no longer the last.

PS: As an aside, position parameter is doing nothing in my tests (without popup option), should I open an issue for that?