Class: EditFieldWithCompletion

• Inheritance
• Description
• Related information
• Instance protocol
  • accepting
  • accessing-behavior
  • accessing-dimensions
  • accessing-mvc
  • event handling
  • initialization & release
  • private
• Examples

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--GraphicsMedium
      |
      +--DisplaySurface
         |
         +--SimpleView
            |
            +--View
               |
               +--ListView
                  |
                  +--TextView
                     |
                     +--EditTextView
                        |
                        +--EditField
                           |
                           +--EditFieldWithCompletion

Package:

stx:libtool

Category:

Views-Text

Version:

rev: 1.18 date: 2018/04/24 07:57:13

user: cg

file: EditFieldWithCompletion.st directory: libtool

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libtool

Author:

Jan Vrany (janfrog@bruxa)

Description:

an editfield, which does some completion on the Tab key.


[instance variables:]

[class variables:]

Related information:

Instance protocol:

 accept

(comment from inherited method)
accept the current contents by executing the accept-action and/or
changeMessage.
Do this only if the contents of the EditField differs
from the printed representation of the model.

 showOptions

 showOptions: aBoolean

 absoluteLeft

answer the absolute left (x) coordinate (i.e. relative to the display)

 absoluteTop

answer the absolute top (y) coordinate (i.e. relative to the display)

 optionsHolder

 optionsHolder: aValueHolder

set the 'options' value holder (automatically generated)

 completion: best options: options

oldContent := ((self contents ? '') asString).
newContent := ((best isNil or:[ best = oldContent ])
and:[ options isNilOrEmptyCollection not ])
ifTrue:[
options first
options inject:options anyOne
into:[:shortest :each |
shortest asString size > each asString size ifTrue:[
each
] ifFalse:[ shortest ]
]
]
ifFalse:[ best ].
self contents:newContent asString.
self cursorCol:oldContent size + 1.
oldContent size < newContent size ifTrue:[
self
selectFromLine:1
col:oldContent size + 1
toLine:1
col:newContent size
].

 handleNonCommandKey: char

(comment from inherited method)
pasted selection will NOT be replaced by keystroke

 handlesKeyPress: key inView: aView

 hasKeyboardFocus: gotFocusBoolean

no change

 keyPress: key x: x y: y

Forward certain events to optionsView if any

 keyPress: key x: x y: y view: aView

 tabCompletion: best options: options

options size > 1

 updateContentsForLongest: best options: options

 destroy

(comment from inherited method)
unmap & destroy - make me invisible, destroy subviews then
make me unknown to the device

 initialize

 doCompletion

 doCompletionThenSend: selector

(options includes:best) ifFalse:[

 doTabCompletion

 hideOptionsWindow

 showOptionsWindow

JV: Looks good to me

 startCompletion

 startTabCompletion

Examples:

LiveCompletionEditField example_1