javascript - How to toggle the google-maps autocomplete on and off?

Question

I'm instantiating an autocomplete input for Google Maps API (level 3), like so:

var input = document.getElementById('szukanyAdres');
autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(input);
autocomplete.bindTo('bounds', map);

How to turn the autocompletion functionality on and off at runtime?

Answer 1

To remove all listeners added to autocomplete.

autocomplete.unbindAll();

To remove all listeners added to input element.

google.maps.event.clearInstanceListeners(input);

See https://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=3429