wxWidgets/interface/wx/textcompleter.h
Vadim Zeitlin ea98f11c2f Add support for dynamic auto-completion in wxTextEntry.
Add wxTextCompleter class which allows to return the possible completions
dynamically and wxTextCompleter::AutoComplete() overload using it. So far this
is only implemented for wxMSW.

Also fix calling wxTextEntry::AutoComplete(wxArrayString) multiple times under
MSW, this didn't correctly update the list of shown completions before.

git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@67511 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775
2011-04-16 17:27:16 +00:00

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/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Name: wx/textcompleter.h
// Purpose: interface of wxTextCompleter
// Author: Vadim Zeitlin
// Created: 2011-04-13
// RCS-ID: $Id$
// Copyright: (c) 2011 Vadim Zeitlin <vadim@wxwindows.org>
// Licence: wxWindows licence
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/**
@class wxTextCompleter
Base class for custom text completer objects.
Custom completer objects used with wxTextEntry::AutoComplete() must derive
from this class and implement its pure virtual method returning the
completions. You would typically use a custom completer when the total
number of completions is too big for performance to be acceptable if all of
them need to be returned at once but if they can be generated
hierarchically, i.e. only the first component initially, then the second
one after the user finished entering the first one and so on.
Here is a simple example of a custom completer that completes the names of
some chess pieces. Of course, as the total list here has only four items it
would have been much simpler to just specify the array containing all the
completions in this example but the same approach could be used when the
total number of completions is much higher provided the number of
possibilities for each word is still relatively small:
@code
class MyTextCompleter : public wxTextCompleter
{
public:
virtual void GetCompletions(const wxString& prefix, wxArrayString& res)
{
const wxString firstWord = prefix.BeforeFirst(' ');
if ( firstWord == "white" )
{
res.push_back("white pawn");
res.push_back("white rook");
}
else if ( firstWord == "black" )
{
res.push_back("black king");
res.push_back("black queen");
}
else
{
res.push_back("white");
res.push_back("black");
}
}
};
...
wxTextCtrl *text = ...;
text->AutoComplete(new MyTextCompleter);
@endcode
@library{wxcore}
@since 2.9.2
*/
class wxTextCompleter
{
public:
/**
Pure virtual method returning all possible completions for the given
prefix.
The custom completer should examine the provided prefix and return all
the possible completions for it in the output array @a res.
Please notice that the returned values should start with the prefix,
otherwise they will be simply ignored, making adding them to the array
in the first place useless.
@param prefix
The possibly empty prefix that the user had already entered.
@param res
Initially empty array that should be filled with all possible
completions (possibly none if there are no valid possibilities
starting with the given prefix).
*/
virtual void GetCompletions(const wxString& prefix, wxArrayString& res) = 0;
};