#441 Notification after auto-completion

[Bjarke Viksøe]

Hi,

It would be usefull to also have a notification after the auto-completion/user-list. Currently the SCN_AUTOCSELECTION is fired *before* the text is inserted.

One need would be to allow post-process of the autocompletion, such as doing additional fill-ups. The SCI_AUTOCSETFILLUPS command is nice, however in some cases you want to add additional characters to the text (ie. "foo()" instead of "foo(" ). Unfortunately the SCN_AUTOCSELECTION notification will not tell you if SCI_AUTOCSETFILLUPS was used to select the list entry, so either this information should be included in the notification structure of SCN_AUTOCSELECTION, or a new notification after the text-insert event to allow post-process of the new text.

regards
bjarke

[Neil Hodgson]

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Are you aware that you can completely take over processing the selection by using SCI_USERLISTSHOW rather than SCI_AUTOCSHOW?

[Bjarke Viksøe]

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I see. It wasn't obvious from the documentation.

Looking at this at source level, it seems that auto-completion, among other things, does an ExtendWordSelect(). This is a nice functionality and I don't want to reimplement this and other features in my container - so I still feel Scintilla should also send an additional notification at completion (while still inside the undo-transaction).

regards
bjarke

[britemma]

Hello,
This is a very old post, however maybe some people are stil searching for this.
I am trying to show a calltip after the insertion of a word from an autocompletion List or userList. However I can't, as soon as I click on TAB I use the notification SCN_USERLISTSELECTION to launch my method for the calltip, but the word selected doesn't get autocompleted. I have the correct calltip but the word doesn't get filled automatically.
How do I have to use the User List to achieve that ? I want to know when a word had been inserted but it is done at the end of the SCN_USERLISTSELECTION notification and I don't know how to capture it.
Thank you in advance

[Neil Hodgson]

Feature [feature-requests:#1109]: SCN_AUTOCCOMPLETED sent after completion with indication of completion cause.