Questions tagged [autocomplete]
Autocomplete is a UI feature provided by applications, where the program predicts a word or phrase that the user wants to type without the user actually typing it completely.
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Building user friendly inputs on a mobile device
I am working on an e-commerce website.
The home page has 2 inputs: Looking for and Location. The user would enter their desired product and location and click on Search as shown below:
The first ...
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Extension for original zsh _hosts completion
Before start, I'd like to give some context.
A couple of years ago I implemented an autocompletion function for one particular case: querying all hosts from database.
It has a couple of flows. One of ...
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Radix Tree Implementation in c
I tried implementing a radix tree using C language in order to get the auto complete suggestions of a dictionary. What are the improvements that I can do here? Also, is there any better way of doing ...
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A simple word autocompleter meant for use in a shell
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I'm writing a simple shell, and I want to have the nice autocomplete feature that bash has when you partially type a word then press tab:
Right now it can work independently from a shell, but ...
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Employee name auto-complete on card scan
Im currently running an employee name substitution on card scan.
Overall the code takes the entry trough the gun scan, "scan" trough the hidden reference sheet to find a match and then input ...
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Bash wrapper for connmanctl with autocompletion
So the idea came from the fact that
connmanctl only completes filenames/directories when used non-interactively,
whereas when used interactively (executing ...
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Android Studio Autocomplete that creates a new entry if no entry selected
I want to use the android component autocomplete:
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/AutoCompleteTextView
There are some possible values the user can select, but I also want that,...
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Implement bash auto completion in Python
I created a script supposed to use python to autocomplete Python commands. The full code is available here, however, I can give you an example. For instance, let's consider:
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Find mobile phone contact according to number typed
I am using the code below trying to replicate the mobile phone feature that displays one or more contact names according to the numbers typed.
This code is intended to be used on a JavaScript course ...
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RxJs observables pipes SwitchMap and async with typealong search input
I'm using RxJs for type along search, I setup an observable to emit a value after 1 second so it behaves like http with delay. I subscribe to it via the async operator in the template, the component ...
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Get the suffix for the date string
Sometimes I have the date as part of the file name. And then when Emacs autocompletes the file name, it puts the part of the date. In these situations I have to write the rest of the date manually. ...
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Prettifier isn't pretty
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I'm implementing a self-closing pairs auto-completion feature in Rubberduck. One of the challenges is that the VBIDE API doesn't allow editing a line of code by "injecting" characters: ...
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Embolden parts of auto-complete suggestions that don't match the query
I made a function to embolden text that doesn't match a string, but it appears to be very performance-heavy. I am certain that there are much better ways to do this, but with what I tried, I ran into ...
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Console autocomplete for complex names
I am currently writing a C# console application. Part of it is, that the user needs to enter a fairly complex system name. To make it easier I wrote a function that uses a string[] keywords and auto ...
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Filtering a name Array in JavaScript
I was wondering if there is a better, more elegant way to write the following JavaScript code block:
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Autocomplete implementation in Python
I have an autocomplete implementation in Python, and it passed all of the unit tests that I have included at the bottom.
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Enhancing autocompletion for VBA code
Context
The Visual Basic Editor (VBE) does a good job at completing member scopes, for example when you type this and hit ENTER...
Private Sub DoSomething
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Autocomplete for Kafka Streams application
I'm building an application that's going to create different autocomplete suggestions of data that sits in Kafka using Kafka Streams application.
Data is read from a relational database and looks as ...
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Autocomplete selector country/region/city for ex-USSR countries
I wrote a selector for several countries. This selector allows the user to choose a country, then a region and then a city. After the user chooses a city, it displays the selected object's country ...
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Javascript typehead using debounce
This is the code I wrote for making a JavaScript typeahead/autocomplete, which displays cities based on the user input.
It would be great if you could suggest some improvements on the code quality.
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Autocomplete for tkinter Entry widgets
Since tkinter doesn't provide easy autocompletion settings for tkinter.Entry widgets, I decided to write a widget with autocompletion functionality myself. I've ...
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Autocomplete ComboBox
Kind time, I apologize in advance for verboseness.
Not so long ago I performed a test task on creating an autocomplete list of cities.
From the functional:
When you enter the first character, the ...
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jQuery autocomplete for all place names in the UK
I made an autocomplete input box of every town, city and village in the UK. Yes, every single one. The load times are painful so is there a way to reduce that?
Here is a sample:
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Autocomplete engine
The purpose of this program is to implement logic of autocomplete feature (Google Search, for instance). The code is divided into 3 parts:
Term - represents single ...
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JavaScript Wikipedia search using jQuery autocomplete
The goal is to query the Wikipedia API with a search, and present the user the autocomplete options based on an API call that shows possible Wikipedia pages when entering the search using the jQuery ...
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jQuery Search Suggestion Generator
I'm currently using a PHP shopping cart, and finally decided to implement a search suggestion feature.
There are some already available solutions out there, but I wanted to gain control over how mine ...
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An HTML Combobox with Autocomplete using jQueryUI and require.js
Hope this is the right place. I've never developed on a team so never had any feedback on my code and I'd like to know what others think. I'm using this in a current project and it is working really ...
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Autocompleting console input
Yesterday I stumbled upon a Stack Overflow question that asked if it was possible to implement Tab-triggered auto-completion in a console application.
I thought that was an interesting idea, so I ...
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A (possibly) great Polymer autocomplete widget
I have just finished writing this:
https://github.com/mercmobily/hot-autocomplete
This is the source at the time of me writing this post:
https://github.com/mercmobily/hot-autocomplete/blob/...
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My first Meteor autocomplete
I am trying to learn Meteor, so I tried to write a basic location autocomplete.
Currently, given a string, it will request suggestions from https://photon.komoot.de/ (amazing free location ...
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Autocomplete Trie Optimization
I'm currently playing with the Typeahead problem on Talentbuddy. There are already 2 questions on this subject (Typeahead Talent Buddy and Typeahead autocomplete functionality challenge), but none of ...
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Typeahead autocomplete functionality challenge
I'm working on a Talent Buddy challenge . In this challenge you have to design the autocomplete functionality of Twitter. You are given a list of queries and possible usernames. You have to return the ...
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Adding, deleting elements as per autocomplete results
I am working on a bookmarker project for replacing storage of bookmarks in a web browser. It will be storing bookmarks as per categories in a database. I have written some jQuery for the WIP search ...
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Module to support autocomplete for movie tags
I've just completed a JavaScript module and I've got a strong feeling that this is borderline spaghetti code. My task was to build a tagging form which adds selected tags to hidden outputs to be sent ...
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