Thanks for the answer, No I don't believe either that it's of vital importance, I just thought if it was trivial to implement, we could make good use of it. I of course did not see the source to be able to estimate how much work it would entail, I'll just have to trust your judgement on that.
I don't think I will create a TJC issue regarding this, but if someone else reading this mail does, please send the link in this thread so I or whoever stumbles across this post can vote on it. Thanks Kris On Mon Nov 17 10:17:12 2014 GMT, Pekka Vuorela wrote: > pe, 2014-11-14 kello 17:21 +0000, [email protected] kirjoitti: > > Hi Pekka, are there any plans to add this feature? There are a lot of use > > cases where it would be extremely handy in 3rd party apps. > > > > > > I have a TextInput where the user enters host names and/or IP > > > > addresses. So > > > > naturally, I'd like to offer some mechanism that allows the user to > > > > quickly > > > > pick from recently used entries. GUI-wise, the best way to do that > > > > seems to be > > > > the autocomplete of the keyboard, since normally I'd just deactivate > > > > prediction completely for this type of input. So instead of just > > > > deactivating > > > > it, the better choice would be to feed it a simple word list that > > > > offers input > > > > hints for recently used host names and IP addresses. Any idea how to do > > > > that? > > > > > > Unfortunately it's not possible to offer completion options to the > > > keyboard. You have to implement completion on application side. > > No plans and I don't think this would be among the most important third > party interfaces. If you think otherwise, you could perhaps create a > t.j.c item. > > I'd still suggest application side completions, a bit like browser has > below the url field when typing. > > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list To unsubscribe, please send a mail to [email protected]
