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[Ronins]

hey guys

i wanted to make an autocomplete textbox, n i thought the best idea would be to update the content of a listbox as i change the contents of a textbox. So, how can i create the event when the content of the textbox/editbox is changed?

[tomoe_uehara]

If you're going to create a GUI with AHK, there is 'G-label' which will intercept user input.

[Ronins]

ok thanx, i plan to use a text file to get the contents of the listbox. When the user types any character, the contents will be updated. Updated as in, suppose user types "a". All the texts starting with a will be displayed. Then user types "ab". Then the listbox will repopulate, and then contents starting with "ab" will be displayed. This seems to be a slow and long process. Anyone got any other idea regarding this?

[Maestr0]

like this?

list = Red|Green|Blue|Black|White  ; needs to be in a variable so we can revert to it easily

	Gui, Add, Edit, x5 vName gAutoComplete, 

	Gui, Add, ListBox, x5 vColorChoice r6, %list%

	Gui, Show

return



AutoComplete:

	Gui, submit, nohide

	loop, parse, list, | ; parse the list to see if the name is in it

	{

		if A_LoopField contains %name%

			newlist .= A_LoopField . "|" ; populate the new list

	}

	if newlist =

		newlist := list

	GuiControl,, ColorChoice, |%newlist% ; by starting with | it'll replace the list in total

	newlist := ; to clear the variable for population later on

return

[Maestr0]

SetBatchLines -1

is your friend
I think it'd have to become quite large (like 10000+) before it becomes noticeably slow...

[Maestr0]

no worries, glad I could help.