[RESOLVED] Textbox plus Listview Autocomplete

Hi everyone. I have an autocomplete textbox, which gets the data from the recordset. But the problem is I can't combine the listview and textbox.

I have seen some programs and I'm wondering what API call should I use.

Look at this example. This is the API Guide from www.allapi.net.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b4...tocomplete.jpg

As you can see, when the user typed a letter, the textbox highlightened as well as the listview.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. :)

maybe there is a better way or api to do what you want, but this woks for me

VB Code:

Dim i As Integer, bfound As Boolean
For i = 1 To lv1.ListItems.Count
 lv1.ListItems(i).Selected = False
 If Not bfound Then
    If LCase(Left(lv1.ListItems(i), Len(tdate(Index)))) = tdate(Index) Then
    lv1.ListItems(i).Selected = True
    lv1.ListItems(i).EnsureVisible
    bfound = True
    End If
End If
Next

i put the boolean in as the listview was multi select, put the code in the textbox change event, change the names of you textbox and listview

What's that tdate ?

I put the code after I call this procedure. Sort of filter.

VB Code:

Public Sub LookUp(SearchKey$)
Screen.MousePointer = vbHourglass
 
frmScribeix.StatusBar1.Panels(1).Text = "Searching!!!"
 
SearchKey$ = Trim(SearchKey$)
                
        rssearch.Filter = "Name like '" & SearchKey$ & "%'"
        
        If rssearch.RecordCount = 0 Then
            ctr = 0
            frmScribeix.lvScribe.ListItems.Clear
            frmScribeix.StatusBar1.Panels(1).Text = "No record found for " & SearchKey$
            Screen.MousePointer = vbNormal
        Exit Sub
        
    ElseIf rssearch.RecordCount > 0 Then
        frmScribeix.lvScribe.ListItems.Clear
        rssearch.MoveFirst
        ctr = 0
        
        
       Do Until rssearch.EOF
            ctr = ctr + 1
            lvScribe.ListItems.Add , , rssearch!Name     
            rssearch.MoveNext
        Loop
 
    Screen.MousePointer = vbNormal
    
    Else
 
    End If
    frmScribeix.StatusBar1.Panels(1).Text = " " & ctr & " " & "records found"
   
End Sub

It didn't work either.

tdate is textbox, (actually an array of text boxes, that's why it has an index),
any textbox will do, just change the name and remove the index part

it just compares the text in the textbox to the items in the listview and selects the first it finds that matches, unselects any others that may have been selected previously, in case of multiple select being enabled (as it is in my project)

still no success. i'm having a conflict with my query. dunno where to put that piece of code.

Quote:

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put the code in the textbox change event, change the names of you textbox and listview

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if you put the code in the textbox change event, it will work for typing, but also pasting

i tested the code and it worked ok

Quote:

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Originally Posted by westconn1

if you put the code in the textbox change event, it will work for typing, but also pasting

i tested the code and it worked ok

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I also tested your code and it worked just fine.

zynder: Did you use westconn1's examples? In what event are you running the code from?

I put the code in the text change event. But as I've said earlier I have a subroutine called on the text change event, which trigger the filtering of the recordset.

It's working fine I just want to add the autocomplete for the textbox.

VB Code:

Private Sub text1_Change()
Dim i As Integer, bfound As Boolean
 
   ' my filter
    LookUp text1
 
   'westconn1's code
    For i = 1 To lv1.ListItems.Count
         lv1.ListItems(i).Selected = False
    If Not bfound Then
        If LCase(Left(lv1.ListItems(i), Len(text1))) = text1 Then
           lv1.ListItems(i).Selected = True
           lv1.ListItems(i).EnsureVisible
           bfound = True
         End If
     End If
     Next
 
End Sub

There must be a conflict somewhere. :( Sorry guys i'm a noob.

This is another way to do it. Its from API guide with some additions... If you want the full code its under "SendMessage", the first example.

the text box is Text1, Listbox is List1

VB Code:

'This project needs a ListBox, named List1 and a TextBox, named Text1
Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Integer, ByVal lParam As Any) As Long
Const LB_FINDSTRING = &H18F
Private Sub Text1_Change()
    'Retrieve the item's listindex
    List1.ListIndex = SendMessage(List1.hwnd, LB_FINDSTRING, -1, ByVal CStr(Text1.Text))
    
    'If something was chosen then we get the rest of it
    If List1.ListIndex <> -1 Then
        strt = Len(Text1.Text)
        Text1.Text = List1.List(List1.ListIndex)
        Text1.SelStart = strt
        Text1.SelLength = Len(Text1.Text) - strt
    End If
End Sub

I'm using listview. /sob

Oops sorry.. i should have read it more carefully :o

Ok this time its a listview ;)

VB Code:

Private Sub Text1_Change()
On Error GoTo ErrMsg
 
Dim LstItm As ListItem
Dim Strt as Integer
 
    ListView1.FindItem(Text1.Text, , , 1).Selected = True
       
    'If something was chosen then we get the rest of it
    strt = Len(Text1.Text)
    Text1.Text = ListView1.SelectedItem.Text
    Text1.SelStart = strt
    Text1.SelLength = Len(Text1.Text) - strt
    
Exit Sub
ErrMsg:
    ListView1.SelectedItem.Selected = False
End Sub

ok the listbox code works perfect and same with the listview but I'm having trouble with backspace or delete keys.

Maybe I should switch to listbox and try that API call. Thanks very much for the help. :)

VB Code:

Dim DelKey As Boolean
Private Sub Text1_Change()
On Error GoTo ErrMsg
 
Dim LstItm As ListItem
    ListView1.FindItem(Text1.Text, , , 1).Selected = True
       
    If Not DelKey Then
        'If something was chosen then we get the rest of it
        strt = Len(Text1.Text)
        Text1.Text = ListView1.SelectedItem.Text
        Text1.SelStart = strt
        Text1.SelLength = Len(Text1.Text) - strt
    End If
    
    DelKey = False
   
Exit Sub
ErrMsg:
    ListView1.SelectedItem.Selected = False
End Sub
 
Private Sub Text1_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
    If KeyCode = vbKeyDelete Or KeyCode = 8 Then DelKey = True
End Sub

del key still ain't working as well as backspace. And the listview is not highlighted. I want it to be exactly the same as the picture above.

Mmm... It should work fine...
I've attached the whole example anyway in case i might have missed something.

Also i should note that it only searches the first column, so it won't check for the other subitems. If You want it to check them as well, then your gonna have to change the FindItem function.

Ok thanks once again. I'm really stressed out lately. I've been doing programming for the past two months straight and now I'm braindead. Maybe I should take a break.


Anyway thanks Andrew! :)


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My Bad. HideSelection was checked!!! That's IT.

i see it is a lot easier to do stuff in the list box than the way i was doing it, but i can't get you code to work right for filling the textbox and doing the selected text, this is because the sub is called recursivly when the text is changed within the sub and even when the the text is not changed within it, the sub runs twice if it overwrites selected text

Exactly! Hey Westconn1, your code actually works now that I unchecked the HideSelection.

LOL. I wasn't paying attention to the properties so I ended up changing some of the codes, which I doubted to be causing the problem. It's okay I have my backup.

:wave: