SWT Autocomplete text box

Question

I have a text box inside a form editor. I want it to display a subset of a list of strings as the user enters characters into the text box (if you are familiar with the google auto suggest feature, or the yahoo mail compose). Does anybody know where I could find these classes? A code snippet would be very useful. Thanks

Answer 1

Assuming you can include JFace in your application you can use:

String [] proposals = new String [] {.... your proposals ....};

new AutoCompleteField(text, new TextContentAdapter(), proposals);

where text is your Text control.

You can change the proposals by calling the setProposals method of AutoCompleteField.