[plt-scheme] goal: A basic text-with-autocompletion teachpack

Now that would be a good example for a GUI guide. 



On Mar 16, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Robby Findler wrote:

> Not really, no. But a basic text-field%-like is not a lot of work if
> you're starting from text% and editor-canvas%.
> 
> Robby
> 
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Jordan Johnson <jmj at fellowhuman.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Now that incremental autocompletion is pretty ubiquitous (e.g., the "To:"
>> field of GMail's and Apple Mail's compose windows) I'm looking to write a
>> simple teachpack that creates a GUI for an address book similar to that of
>> HtDP Section 36; the idea came up in my advanced class today, and my
>> students have written the back end already.
>> 
>> It *seems* like what I want to do is create a text-field% and use
>> text:autocomplete-mixin from the framework to add the functionality to its
>> text% object...but text-field% (which I've used before for little GUIs)
>> provides no evident way to specify the text% object it uses internally.  Is
>> there an alternative that will get me the same effect (and that avoids
>> massive amounts of GUI re-implementation)?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> jmj
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