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 :)
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http://svn.wxwidgets.org/viewvc/wx/wxWidgets/trunk/src/msw/textentry.cpp?view=markup...

In reply to Re^3: No wxTextCompleterSimple class? ( nope ) by Anonymous Monk
in thread No wxTextCompleterSimple class? by einhverfr

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