当我开始在文本字段中键入内容时，如何制作自动完成列表？

Question

I have a textfield and if I want to write something to the field, it will show me the list of possible options regarding to that letter and I think this is called an auto complete.

Could someone give me an idea or a sample on how to do it?

Thanks..

Answer 1

Take a combo box and listen to all changes in the textfield. On every event, read the actual content and query your source list for possible matches. Then use the result to populate the associated list.

You may want to start autocompletion once the user has entered two or three letters, otherwise the list may get too long..

Answer 2

看这里是AutoCompleteComboBox / JFextField ，有两个类，一个是JComboBox ，第二个是JTextField ，请注意，自动完成功能需要两个类

Answer 3

I feeling generous as you really should google ...

As the user types, you'd need to query your DB with a like '<userInput>%' and return the results into a pulldown. You probably want to wait for a pause in the user's typing so as not to hammer your DB.

In the absence of a database, a data structure that would work well for this is called a Trie as you can traverse it past the initial input and present all the subsequent words.