Call this function to enable auto-completion of the text typed in a
single-line text control using the given @a choices.
- Notice that currently this function is only implemented in wxGTK2 and
- wxMSW ports and does nothing under the other platforms.
+ Notice that currently this function is only implemented in wxGTK2,
+ wxMSW and wxOSX/Cocoa ports and does nothing under the other platforms.
@since 2.9.0
*/
bool AutoComplete(const wxArrayString& choices);
+ /**
+ Enable auto-completion using the provided completer object.
+
+ This method should be used instead of AutoComplete() overload taking
+ the array of possible completions if the total number of strings is too
+ big as it allows to return the completions dynamically, depending on
+ the text already entered by user and so is more efficient.
+
+ The specified @a completer object will be used to retrieve the list of
+ possible completions for the already entered text and will be deleted
+ by wxTextEntry itself when it's not needed any longer.
+
+ Notice that you need to include @c wx/textcompleter.h in order to
+ define your class inheriting from wxTextCompleter.
+
+ Currently this method is only implemented in wxMSW and wxOSX/Cocoa.
+
+ @since 2.9.2
+
+ @param completer
+ The object to be used for generating completions if non-@NULL. If
+ it is @NULL, auto-completion is disabled. The wxTextEntry object
+ takes ownership of this pointer and will delete it in any case
+ (i.e. even if this method returns @false).
+
+ @return
+ @true if the auto-completion was enabled or @false if the operation
+ failed, typically because auto-completion is not supported by the
+ current platform.
+
+ @see wxTextCompleter
+ */
+ bool AutoComplete(wxTextCompleter *completer);
+
/**
Call this function to enable auto-completion of the text typed in a
single-line text control using all valid file system paths.
- Notice that currently this function is only implemented in wxGTK2 port
+ Notice that currently this function is only implemented in wxMSW port
and does nothing under the other platforms.
@since 2.9.0