Qcompleter

**wambagilles** · 29th March 2011, 22:22

thanks for your reply, and sorry for the quality of my english, i am french man!
what i wanted is somting like in firefox or chrome, when you start typing an address in the adress bar, completion is provided based on the history! and this completion is not only done only using a prefix! for example, if the item "http://qtcentre.org" is in the completion list, i want it to be shown when the user type qt..., not only when he types http...! i hope i am a bit clearer now, could could you suggest me a method to do that?

**schnitzel** · 29th March 2011, 22:27

does this help?

http://www.qtcentre.org/threads/6900...ter-QCompleter

**wambagilles** · 30th March 2011, 07:01

i think it will help, thanks!

**wambagilles** · 6th April 2011, 08:14

sorry i have not been able to use your QcompletionWidget, instead i reimplemented the Qcompleter class, now, i want to reimplement the method

QAbstractItemModel *completionModel () const;

so that i will populate the completion model my self!
is that a good way to solve the problem? if yes, how should i do it? for example if i want to put the item "http://qtcentre.org" in completion list how should i do? if not, please what is a good way to solve this problem?

need help!

**SixDegrees** · 29th March 2011, 23:11

Originally Posted by wambagilles

thanks for your reply, and sorry for the quality of my english, i am french man!
what i wanted is somting like in firefox or chrome, when you start typing an address in the adress bar, completion is provided based on the history! and this completion is not only done only using a prefix! for example, if the item "http://qtcentre.org" is in the completion list, i want it to be shown when the user type qt..., not only when he types http...! i hope i am a bit clearer now, could could you suggest me a method to do that?

If you want to begin with a specified column in the completion list, QCompleter supports that. It does not support unbounded searches throughout the string.