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Hello,

What I'd like to do is something similar to the way various websites search boxes behave. That is, I have a text box, and after entering some information into it (say 5+ characters) it should pop down a list with the matches it is finding from [wherever]. I just don't know if this would be possible in AHK, might need to use a seperate DDL control?

Ideally it would just be 1 control that you could type into, and then it would behave like a DDL or so.

So say List := "Number One|Number Two|Number Three|Letter A|Letter B|Letter C" and you type in "number" into your text box, the DDL would contain "Number One|Number Two|Number Three" to click on and fill into the text box. I'm fairly certain I could work something out with seperate controls (1 text box and 1 ddl) but if anyone has an idea for a single-control version, I think it'd be VERY useful.

2 controls like you say would be easy.

with one texbox thou im not sure how you would have a box drop down there is probarly a way, ill take a look a little later after ive had tea and get back to you.

See my answer here for some pointers for already posted scripts
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic38206.html

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Hrm, I seem to have forgotten about the ComboBox control type, which allows free form text to be entered as well as a list... this may prove useful.

Edit: Bah, when you do a GuiControl,, on a ComboBox, it clears the text you have typed into it. =/ I worked around this by GuiControlling the Text back to what it was and Send {End} but this is both lame and crap. Almost had it tho kind of. Still gotta click the arrow to see your matches, but at least it's only showing the found matches. Final solution I think will just be to have all (8000+) lines (matches) in the combo box, and users can just type the first few letters and click the arrow to find the match. Cause the combo box will at least start on the closest match you've typed.