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Issue 3.2

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Getting Your Auto-Fill

Extending the EditField control

Issue: 3.2 (November/December 2004)
Author: Toby Rush
Author Bio: Toby Rush is a music instructor, consultant, freelance programmer, web designer, husband and Dad in Greeley, Colorado.
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One of the new interface elements that has emerged over the past half-decade or so is the auto-completing EditField, which analyzes what is being typed and, if it matches the first portion of an item from a list, completes the typing for the user.

These gadgets first became popular in web browsers, where they allow users to just type the first portion of a URL that they had recently visited. Apple uses this type of EditField in many programs, most visibly iTunes and Mail.

This is the type of thing that's screaming to be a subclass in REALbasic: an extension of an existing control that provides some extra features. We can subclass REALbasic's EditField class pretty easily -- the process will involve adding an array of strings to serve as the list, and the coding to make it do lookups and autocompletions.

Implementation

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