As suggested for the time being I ended up going with QCompleter whcih unfortunately doesn't have string-segment matching. Thanks For your help with this Justin!
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Justin Israel <[email protected]>wrote: > Also, the reason its not working right now in your code is because you are > using a QMenu. The default flags and usage for a QMenu are to be a popup > type which is designed to hide when it loses focus. You are calling its > exec method which will force it to act like a popup . > You would want to just use a normal QWidget that is set up how you want, > and show() it. I have a tool exactly like this which mimics OSX's > Spotlight. The list is just a custom widget that I show underneath. > > > > On May 7, 2012, at 7:25 AM, Justin Israel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Manuel, > Have you tried using a QCompleter? You realize its provided to do this > exact functionality? > http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qcompleter.html > > There are a couple different modes it can be set to, one of which being a > popup that narrows down the list as you type. > > > > On May 6, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Manuel Macha <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to create a variation of QLineEdit where as soon as the user > types something, a list of items that match the entered text pop up below > the textfield. If you're not sure what I mean - it's supposed to work like > the searchbox in any modern browser where suggestions are being displayed > while typing. > The problem that I'm having is that as soon as I'm displaying the menu, > the lineedit is loosing focus which makes it impossible to type more than a > character at a time - not exactly very user-friendly. I tried several > things using setFocusPolicy and setFocusReason but I'm not sure if I > properly understood how to utilize those functions. > Could someone please have a look at the sample code below. Very much > appreciated! > > http://pastebin.com/m318MY2G > > from PyQt4.QtGui import QLineEdit, QMenu, QAction > > class SearchField(QLineEdit): > def __init__(self, parent = None): > QLineEdit.__init__(self, parent = parent) > self.textEdited.connect(self.popupMenu) > > > def popupMenu(self): > aMenu = QMenu() > aMenu.addAction('Some text') > aMenu.addAction('More text') > globalPos = self.mapToGlobal(self.pos()) > globalPos.setY(globalPos.y() + self.height()) > aMenu.exec_(globalPos) > self.setFocus() > > if __name__ == '__main__': > import sys > from PyQt4.QtGui import QApplication, QMainWindow > app = QApplication(sys.argv) > win = QMainWindow() > win.setGeometry(200, 200, 128,32) > win.setCentralWidget(SearchField()) > win.show() > > -- > view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > change your subscription settings: > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe > > -- > view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > change your subscription settings: > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe > -- view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya change your subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe
