| Type ahead in a Combo--Modified solution [message #445780] |
Thu, 11 November 2004 03:29  |
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Originally posted by: ukalumni.hotmail.com
Searching through this newsgroup, I found someone who had a class that
would do type aheads in a Combo (sorry, can't remember who). The class
_almost_ worked for me, but not quite. One of the problems that I still
haven't figured out is how to select part of the text in a Combo. On GTK
linux, I just can't get that to work.
So, I cleaned up the original class and modified it to work without
having to do partial selection of the text of the current item. It might
be slow on Combos with a huge list of entries, but for Combos that do
not have huge lists of entries, it seems to work pretty well.
Although I'm open to any suggestions, that's not why I'm posting it. I'm
just hopeful that it will be useful to someone else. I appreciate all of
the help I'm getting from this forum.
--Michael
import org.eclipse.swt.events.ModifyEvent;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.ModifyListener;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.*;
/**
* @author mmolloy
*
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*/
public class ComboModifyListener implements ModifyListener
{
boolean programmaticallyChanging = false;
Combo combo;
public void modifyText(ModifyEvent e)
{
combo = (Combo)e.getSource();
if (!programmaticallyChanging) {
int index = indexOfClosestMatch(combo.getText());
int length = combo.getText().length();
switch (index) {
case -1:
programmaticallyChanging = true;
combo.setText("");
programmaticallyChanging = false;
break;
default:
programmaticallyChanging = true;
combo.select(index);
combo.setText(combo.getItem(index));
combo.setFocus();
// combo.setSelection(new Point(length,
combo.getText().length()));
programmaticallyChanging = false;
break;
}
}
}
public int indexOfClosestMatch (String text)
{
int index = -1;
for(int j = 0; j < text.length(); j++ )
{
String[] items = combo.getItems();
for (int i = 0; i < items.length; ++i)
{
String substring = text.substring(0,j);
if(j == 0)
substring = text.substring(0,1);
if (items[i].toUpperCase().startsWith(substring.toUpperCase()))
{
index = i;
break;
}
}
}
return index;
}
}
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| Re: Type ahead in a Combo--Modified solution [message #446141 is a reply to message #445780] |
Wed, 17 November 2004 19:47  |
| Eclipse User |
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Originally posted by: ukalumni.hotmail.com
Sorry if this has gotten annoying, but I needed to make a correction.
The last class I posted works fine on linux, but does not work correctly
on Windows. This version works on Windows.
--Michael
public class ComboModifyListener implements ModifyListener
{
boolean programmaticallyChanging = false;
Combo combo;
public void modifyText(ModifyEvent e)
{
combo = (Combo)e.getSource();
if (!programmaticallyChanging) {
int index = indexOfClosestMatch(combo.getText());
int length = combo.getText().length();
switch (index) {
case -1:
programmaticallyChanging = true;
combo.setText("");
programmaticallyChanging = false;
break;
default:
programmaticallyChanging = true;
combo.setText(combo.getItem(index));
combo.select(index);
combo.setSelection(new
org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Point(length, combo.getText().length()));
programmaticallyChanging = false;
break;
}
}
}
public int indexOfClosestMatch (String text)
{
int index = -1;
// for(int j = 0; j < text.length(); j++ )
// {
String[] items = combo.getItems();
for (int i = 0; i < items.length; ++i)
{
if(items[i].toUpperCase().startsWith(text.toUpperCase()))
{
index = i;
break;
}
// String substring = text.substring(0,j);
// if(j == 0)
// substring = text.substring(0,1);
// if (items[i].toUpperCase().startsWith(substring.toUpperCase()))
// {
// index = i;
// break;
// }
}
// }
return index;
}
}
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| Re: Type ahead in a Combo--Modified solution [message #446192 is a reply to message #446167] |
Fri, 19 November 2004 20:34 |
| Eclipse User |
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Originally posted by: ukalumni.hotmail.com
Haven't had time to debug it. The behavior on linux gtk is that no text
is ever selected. If I have a list of states including Texas and
Tennessee, pressing 't' (sans quotes) brings up Tennesse, as expected,
although no text is selected.
Typing 'e' deletes the entire line, so there's never a point in typing 'x'.
Typing 't' a second time also deletes the entire line. Typing 't' a
third time brings up 'Tennessee' again.
However, this exact class behaves exactly as expected on Windows.
Because my users are all running windows, the linux behavior is only
annoying to me, and I don't have to maintain two versions. I simply
don't use the type ahead feature when I'm testing it.
Thanks,
--Michael
Steve Northover wrote:
> What was the problem?
>
> "Michael Molloy" <ukalumni@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:cnga3t$qdl$1@www.eclipse.org...
>
>>Sorry if this has gotten annoying, but I needed to make a correction.
>>The last class I posted works fine on linux, but does not work correctly
>>on Windows. This version works on Windows.
>>
>>--Michael
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