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Re: Positioning of autocomplete popups

Subject: Re: Positioning of autocomplete popups
From: Ross Carter <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:37:45 -0400


On May 18, 2009, at 5:09 AM, Dave Robertson wrote:

Is there a way to control the position or appearance of an autocomplete popup? I've noticed that autocompletion in Xcode does the right thing - is anyone able to suggest how this could be achieved?

IMHO, the default text completion list is uncommonly ugly. Here's one approach:

1. In your NSTextView subclass, override complete:. Get the array of hits using completionsForPartialWordRange:indexOfSelectedItem:.

2. Filter that list. I don't need the list to contain the word I've alrready typed, nor a bunch of words with apostrophe-s appended. Also limit the number of hits to a reasonable amount.

3. Put the filtered list in a popup button and draw it.

Ross Carter
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