Looking for autocompletion widget

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Sat Apr 27 11:31:09 UTC 2002


Ross Boylan wrote:
> 
> Is there a morphic widget that will attempt to complete a field as you
> type it in?  In other word, it has a list of possible values, and as
> you type letters it shows the first one that matches.  You can keep
> typing to refine the selection.
> 
> Refinements might include a dropdown list of all the values, and also
> an option that would either permit or deny entry of values not in the
> list.
Hmm, I have not seen any widget that do this automagically but
there is a cmd-q auto completion function in 
ParagraphEditor>>completeSymbol: hintText lastOffering: selectorOrNil

Maybe some morphic stepping or event handling and a method modified or 
inspired from this one could be used.

Karl



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