Re: GTKCombo: autocomplete?

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Wednesday, May 19, 2004, at 08:58 PM, Daniel Kasak wrote:

> What I can't figure, however, is:
>
> a) How to pass the completion object a list of strings for the 
> completion list

the completion checks for matches in the rows of a treemodel you 
provide.  basically, create a list store with at least one column 
containing the strings, tell the completion to use that model 
($completion->set_model ($model)) and tell it which column contains the 
strings ($completion->set_text_column ($colnumber)).

that's just from reading the description section at 
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkEntryCompletion.html

> b) What the Perl equivalent of the above C functions are

according to the principles outlined in the Gtk2::api manpage:

    GtkEntryCompletion => Gtk2::EntryCompletion
    gtk_entry_completion_new() => Gtk2::EntryCompletion->new()
    gtk_entry_set_completion(entry, completion) => 
$entry->set_completion ($completion)

> Is there any documentation ( or examples ) yet on using the 
> GtkEntryCompletion object from Perl?

if you built your gtk2-perl against gtk+ 2.4, there should be a man 
page for Gtk2::EntryCompletion listing the methods you can call. the 
gtk-demo program (Gtk2/gtk-demo) contains an example of using the entry 
completion.


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