Re: GTKCombo: autocomplete?

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 05:50 AM, Jan Hudec wrote:

> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 14:09:18 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote:
> > I realise that this is not strictly a PerlGTK questions, but maybe 
> > someone knows anyway.
> > I've got a GTKCombo box that I'm loading data into with  
> > $mycombo->set_popdown_strings(@list_of_companies).
> > The combo box will contain a list of all of our clients - it's a 
> > pretty large list.
> > Is it possible to have the combo box seek the closest match to what 
> > you type in the entry box ( yeah, like Access ).
...
> Yes, you can. The GtkCombo contains a GtkEntry and GtkEntry has 
> 'insert-text' and 'delete-text' signals. There are also some 
> facilities in Gtk to do completions, which should be faster than 
> regexps (after all, C is still faster than perl). Actualy, it should 
> be filed as Gtk bug if GtkCombo does not do autocompletion 
> automaticaly.

well, you could file a missing feature bug on GtkCombo, but it would be 
ignored -- GtkCombo is deprecated as of gtk+ 2.4.0, in favor of 
GtkComboBox.

in gtk+ 2.4, there are new object that will make it easier to do what 
you (Daniel) are talking about --- GtkComboBox sucks less than 
GtkCombo, and GtkEntry now has a helper object called 
GtkEntryCompletion, which, oddly enough, does text completion.

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkEntryCompletion.html


you will need gtk+ 2.4 (comes with Gnome 2.6) and Gtk2 > 1.04 to use 
these new objects.


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