Autocomplete in a textbox

[scklifasovskiy]

Hi all,
I have created a class that have textboxes with autocomplete functionality.
Works very well. However, when you start typing let's say "j" - you're looking for John- it works perfectly... BUT if in your database name is recorded Mr. John and you type "J" it doesn't work as it looks for words starting from "M". If there is any way autocomplete can show me not from first letter but everything that contains John? I.e both from my database "John" and "Mr. John"?

thank you

 

[TamarGranor]

You can't do that with the built-in autocomplete. You could build a class that does that. You'd need code in KeyPress to intercept each keystroke and handle it.

While it doesn't do exactly what you want, you can get some ideas how to do this sort of this from my QuickFill combo class, described in

http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com/Conference Sessions/Creating Helpful User Interfaces.pdf.

Tamar