Feature Request: Auto-completion Widget

[psankar]

I would like to have an auto-completion widget, say if I want to develop a text editor using this. If the suggestions could be populated by reading from an output channel and if the letters pressed in the input go into an input channel, the better it will be.

[vhakulinen]

What I suggested in #54 would allow this.

[andlabs]

For TextField I'll need to look into it.

For the eventual TextArea: as a side note, one thing I want to do is throw out the Area.OpenTextFieldAt() framework and replace it with a more generic Area.SetOverlayControl()/Area.ShowOverlayControl() feature. Autocompletion in a TextArea would involve using a list box here (but I'll need to introduce the concept of activating an item)

[andlabs]

notes to self: https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.4/GtkEntryCompletion.html

[psankar]

Is there something that I could do to bump up the priority of this ? :)

[andlabs]

more notes to self: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb776884.aspx