No wxTextCompleterSimple class?

einhverfr has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Fellow monks

Still working on the wxperl point of sale application and trying to add autocomplete to some text fields.

The wxwidget documentation mentions a wxTextCompleter and a wxTextCompleterSimple class. I have tried to instantiate these and I keep getting errors that the class is empty. Am I missing something? Is there a workable alternative for wxWidget-based applications?

The lines in my code are:


package Package::Name; # not the real name but...
use Wx;
use base 'Wx::wxTextCompleterSimple'; # these lines copied verbatim
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My error is: Base class package "Wx::wxTextCompleterSimple" is empty.

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Re: No wxTextCompleterSimple class? ( nope ) by Anonymous Monk on Nov 15, 2013 at 10:11 UTC
`use base 'Wx::wxTextCompleterSimple'; # these lines copied verbatim` Copied from where? Doesn't follow the naming convention ( Wx::TextCompleterSimple ) also, wxperl_usage and the sources doesn't show this class as wrapped, and the docs say its fairly cutting edge feature also, wxperl_usage uses a diy "autocomplete" feature also, wxperl_usage shows Usage: Wx::RichTextCtrl::AutoComplete(THIS, choices) and Usage: Wx::TextCtrlBase::AutoComplete(THIS, choices) also, unrelated, `wxperl_demo --show wxPropertyGrid` has autocomplete example buried I like Wx :) Re: wxPerl: is BitmapFromImage implemented? (no;sleep;docs), my wxWidgets / wxPerl / wxGlade tutorial, http://www.wxperl.it/p/wxperl-primer.html , wxperl_usage / wxperl-usage / wxPerl::Usage / Class Method Browser , available methods, method invocation syntax, link to docs, Re^8: How to use wxHtmlEasyPrinting (On debugging, verify everything, talk to teddybear ... and links and links , Tutorials: Perl documentation documentation, Searching Perl Documentation you don't need to build wx yourself, http://www.citrusperl.com/, http://ppm.wxperl.it/ What Do These Sizer Things Do?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: No wxTextCompleterSimple class? ( nope ) by einhverfr (Friar) on Nov 16, 2013 at 03:18 UTC
Thanks, the lines were copied from my source code. What I was trying to find is where I was going wrong. It looks like my system has wxwidgets 2.8 which is the main source of the problem. Apparently it is a good idea to follow the same version of docs and code... I ended up switching for now from textboxes to comboboxes to try to implement my own autocomplete that way. However if I setfocus to the combobox, it selects the text which makes it very hard to change the combinations in it. Do you know of a good way to do autocomplete with wxPerl and wxwidgets 2.8? Edit: Never mind. I found that the issue was that the best thing to do was to avoid setting the value, and instead process the items on the list.	[reply]
Re^3: No wxTextCompleterSimple class? ( nope ) by Anonymous Monk on Nov 16, 2013 at 09:38 UTC
I ended up switching for now from textboxes to comboboxes to try to implement my own autocomplete that way. However if I setfocus to the combobox, it selects the text which makes it very hard to change the combinations in it. Eh? Did you bind an event for this , and did you remember to skip the event, so the value doesn't change? Do you know of a good way to do autocomplete with wxPerl and wxwidgets 2.8? I don't know how good it is, but it works for me, see wxperl_usage, the "Method list" text entry does the completing You could steal shamelessly the logic... from cpp implementations ... looks verbose to me :) wxWidgets Discussion Forum • View topic - Combobox autocomplete wxWidgets Discussion Forum • View topic - wxAutoComboBox wxWidgets Discussion Forum • View topic - wxAutoTextCtrl http://svn.wxwidgets.org/viewvc/wx/wxWidgets/trunk/src/msw/textentry.cpp?view=markup...	[reply]
Re: No wxTextCompleterSimple class? by stefbv (Priest) on Nov 15, 2013 at 09:59 UTC
What wxWidgets version do you use? Conform to the docs is only available since 2.9.2. Update:It looks like Wx Version: 0,9921 wxWidgets 2.9.4 doesn't know about it...	[reply]