Events other than 'place_changed' for Google Maps Autocomplete

Question

I have an app that currently fires correctly on place_changed.

However, I want to branch search to behave differently when a user has selected an autocomplete entry,

Answer 1

This is quite an old question but i propose a solution that could be lot simplier than what i read here.

The 'place_changed' event only fires when a user actually select a suggestion from Google's list.

So as long as the user did not select a suggestion, you can consider that the text entered in the input is not a google's place result.

From here, you could consider 'place-changed' as a kind of 'click' event, using a boolean to store the current state

function initializeAutocomplete(id) {  
    var element = document.getElementById(id);    
    if (element) {    
        var autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(element, { types: ['geocode','establishment'], componentRestrictions: {country: ['fr']} });
        google.maps.event.addListener(autocomplete, 'place_changed', function(){
            var place = this.getPlace();
            console.log("A result from "+id+" was clicked !");
            for (var i in place.address_components) {    
                var component = place.address_components[i];    
                for (var j in component.types) {  
                    var type_element = document.getElementById(component.types[j]);      
                    if (type_element) {        
                        type_element.value = component.long_name;
                    }    
                }  
            }               
        });         
    }
}