Autocomplete and editable JTextField using AutoCompleteDecorator

Question

I am using a JTextField for auto suggestion, as described in following code

String[] myStrings = new String[] {"Elem1","Elem2","Elem3","Elem4","Elem5"};

JList list = new JList(myStrings); //data has type Object[]
AutoCompleteDecorator.decorate(list, this.customerNameField, ObjectToStringConverter.DEFAULT_IMPLEMENTATION);

Now I can only select the name from myStrings , but my client want that he can select the value from auto suggestion also he can add other vales but above code is not allowing me to do this.

Answer 1

• use AutoComplete JComboBox/JTextField#setStrict(boolean flag)

• or search for equivalent in SwingX#enableAutoCompletion() ,