Smart Comboboxes

[danielo515]

Hello everyone.

I just found this piece of code:

http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/1 ... omboboxes/

It adds atocomplete to comboboxes while you type.
The posted date is quite old, so I would like to know if a better solution has appeared since then.

Regards

[joedf]

Thanks for sharing

[FanaticGuru]

Here is an example I have used in the past:

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; http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/42127-combobox-help/

clients:="|Alex|Bob|Cathy|Fred|Jim|John|"
Sort,clients,D|
Gui, Add, ComboBox, gcclient vcclient w200, % clients ;Alex|Bob|Cathy|Fred|Jim|John
gui, add, text, w200 vclientname, This box Auto Fills.
Gui, Add, Button, Default x-40 y-40 gEntered,Enter
gui, show,, Client Auto Complete
return

cclient:

gui, submit, nohide

If (!GetKeyState("BackSpace","P") and cclient and pos:=InStr(clients,"|" . cclient)){
	GuiControl,,clientname, % (found:=SubStr(clients,pos+1,InStr(clients,"|",1,pos+1)-pos-1))
	GuiControl,Text,cclient, %found%
	SendInput % "{End}" . "+{Left " . StrLen(found)-StrLen(cclient) . "}"
} else GuiControl,,clientname
return

Entered:
	gui, submit
	MsgBox % "You picked:`n" cclient
return

GuiClose:

GuiEscape:

exitapp

I slightly modified it from the example at the link to show how to make "Enter" work.

FG

[just me]

CBSample1.ahk

[danielo515]

Hello Just me,

Thank you for sharing your library. The problem with your autocomplete approach is that seems to require the identification of the control. I mean, it is not generic for any control in the gui but a specific one.

[just me]

It's only a sample how to use the CB functions for auto-completion.