Zwil
25th July 2014, 17:55
Hi,
I'm new to Qt and have a question about QComboBox and autocompletion.
I have a QComboBox loaded with a bunch of colors as the items. I set editable as false and set QApplication::setKeyboardInputInterval() to 2000 and the autocomplete works as I want it to except for items with spaces.
Colors loaded in the combobox:
Black
Blue
White
Dark Blue
Dark Green
If I type 'b' the box shows Black
If I type 'bl' the box shows Black
If I type 'blu' the box shows Blue. All these are fine.
If I type 'dark ' (note the space after) the box shows Dark Blue and the popup menu comes up and stops any keypresses from registering until I click on a choice in the popup or hit escape. This stops me from typing 'dark g' to get to Dark Green.
I read that the space is the shortcut for the popup menu. How can I suppress the popup while still matching the text containing the space?
Is there another (or better) way to do this besides a combobox? Any information or code snippets are greatly appreciated.
Thanks
-Zwil
I'm new to Qt and have a question about QComboBox and autocompletion.
I have a QComboBox loaded with a bunch of colors as the items. I set editable as false and set QApplication::setKeyboardInputInterval() to 2000 and the autocomplete works as I want it to except for items with spaces.
Colors loaded in the combobox:
Black
Blue
White
Dark Blue
Dark Green
If I type 'b' the box shows Black
If I type 'bl' the box shows Black
If I type 'blu' the box shows Blue. All these are fine.
If I type 'dark ' (note the space after) the box shows Dark Blue and the popup menu comes up and stops any keypresses from registering until I click on a choice in the popup or hit escape. This stops me from typing 'dark g' to get to Dark Green.
I read that the space is the shortcut for the popup menu. How can I suppress the popup while still matching the text containing the space?
Is there another (or better) way to do this besides a combobox? Any information or code snippets are greatly appreciated.
Thanks
-Zwil