The PySide docs include this section on QCompleter with tree models:
PySide.QtGui.QCompleter can look for completions in tree models, assuming that any item (or sub-item or sub-sub-item) can be unambiguously represented as a string by specifying the path to the item. The completion is then performed one level at a time.
Let’s take the example of a user typing in a file system path. The model is a (hierarchical) PySide.QtGui.QFileSystemModel . The completion occurs for every element in the path. For example, if the current text is C:Wind , PySide.QtGui.QCompleter might suggest Windows to complete the current path element. Similarly, if the current text is C:WindowsSy , PySide.QtGui.QCompleter might suggest System .
For this kind of completion to work, PySide.QtGui.QCompleter needs to be able to split the path into a list of strings that are matched at each level. For C:WindowsSy , it needs to be split as “C:”, “Windows” and “Sy”. The default implementation of PySide.QtGui.QCompleter.splitPath() , splits the PySide.QtGui.QCompleter.completionPrefix() using QDir.separator() if the model is a PySide.QtGui.QFileSystemModel .
To provide completions, PySide.QtGui.QCompleter needs to know the path from an index. This is provided by PySide.QtGui.QCompleter.pathFromIndex() . The default implementation of PySide.QtGui.QCompleter.pathFromIndex() , returns the data for the edit role for list models and the absolute file path if the mode is a PySide.QtGui.QFileSystemModel.
But I can't seem to find an example showing how to do this. Can anyone point me at an example I can use as a starting point? (In my investigation it looks like maybe the hard part is the tree model rather than the QCompleter)
It looks like you would need to provide these functions:
- ability to split a string into segments (for the example given,
C:WindowsSy
to['C:','Windows','Sy']
- the ability to specify the list of items that include the last segment (e.g. all the items included in
['C:','Windows']
I found an example for the basic functionality of QCompleter and have been able to tweak the basics fine (see below), I just don't know how to go about implementing a tree model type application.
'''based on
http://codeprogress.com/python/libraries/pyqt/showPyQTExample.php?index=403&key=QCompleterQLineEdit'''
from PySide.QtGui import *
from PySide.QtCore import *
import sys
def main():
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
edit = QLineEdit()
strList = '''
Germany;Russia;France;
french fries;frizzy hair;fennel;fuzzball
frayed;fickle;Frobozz;fear;framing;frames
Franco-American;Frames;fancy;fire;frozen yogurt
football;fnord;foul;fowl;foo;bar;baz;quux
family;Fozzie Bear;flinch;fizzy;famous;fellow
friend;fog;foil;far;flower;flour;Florida
'''.replace('
',';').split(";")
strList.sort(key=lambda s: s.lower())
completer = QCompleter(strList,edit)
completer.setCaseSensitivity(Qt.CaseInsensitive)
edit.setWindowTitle("PySide QLineEdit Auto Complete")
edit.setCompleter(completer)
edit.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
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