// Created: 2009-03-01 (extracted from wx/textctrl.h)
// RCS-ID: $Id$
// Copyright: (c) 2009 Vadim Zeitlin <vadim@wxwindows.org>
-// Licence: wxWindows license
+// Licence: wxWindows licence
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/**
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
@see AutoCompleteFileNames()
*/
- virtual bool AutoComplete(const wxArrayString& choices);
+ 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
@see AutoComplete()
*/
- virtual bool AutoCompleteFileNames();
+ bool AutoCompleteFileNames();
/**
Returns @true if the selection can be copied to the clipboard.
Notice that hints are known as <em>cue banners</em> under MSW or
<em>placeholder strings</em> under OS X.
+ @remarks For the platforms without native hints support (and currently
+ only the MSW port does have it and even there it is only used under
+ Windows Vista and later only), the implementation has several known
+ limitations. Notably, the hint display will not be properly updated
+ if you change wxTextEntry contents programmatically when the hint
+ is displayed using methods other than SetValue() or ChangeValue()
+ or others which use them internally (e.g. Clear()). In other words,
+ currently you should avoid calling methods such as WriteText() or
+ Replace() when using hints and the text control is empty.
+
@since 2.9.0
*/
virtual void SetHint(const wxString& hint);