Comments on: TextField with Autocomplete https://blog.xojo.com/2016/08/10/textfield-with-autocomplete/ Blog about the Xojo programming language and IDE Tue, 09 Jun 2020 14:44:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Javier Menendez https://blog.xojo.com/2016/08/10/textfield-with-autocomplete/#comment-72 Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:27:28 +0000 http://blog.xojo.com/?p=1540#comment-72 In reply to GermanXojo.

Xavier is so X-Men!!

I’m obligated! So I’ll put all of my special super powers on the task!

Javier

]]> By: Edwin https://blog.xojo.com/2016/08/10/textfield-with-autocomplete/#comment-69 Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:54:46 +0000 http://blog.xojo.com/?p=1540#comment-69 In reply to GermanXojo.

I think it could be done by splitting the Text value of the TextField into different values. Based on the cursor position you can determine which word is being edited. A popup menu can be launched to show several autocomplete possibilities.
By knowing the offset and length of the edited word you can figure out the what part of the TextField needs to be highlighted.

Additionally it would be cool to keep the initial casing. Right now, when I enter the word Object (with uppercase O), it would be nice to keep the O uppercase. Maybe an additional array of upper/lowercase states would be needed.

But, I must say, this is one of those little diamonds I find in the Blog section 🙂

]]> By: GermanXojo https://blog.xojo.com/2016/08/10/textfield-with-autocomplete/#comment-66 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 17:09:48 +0000 http://blog.xojo.com/?p=1540#comment-66 In reply to Edwin.

Edwin, your are right. Multiple words would be very nice and to create a Subclass of TextArea…hope Xavier is still working on it 🙂

]]> By: Edwin https://blog.xojo.com/2016/08/10/textfield-with-autocomplete/#comment-65 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 08:14:50 +0000 http://blog.xojo.com/?p=1540#comment-65 The next challenge is to be able to enter multiple words into our TextField subclass.

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