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STPathTextField is an Objective C class for Mac OS X. It is a subclass of the Cocoa NSTextField control, adding path autocompletion to the textfield. Autocompletion can be configured in a variety of ways: as browser-style autocomplete or shell-style, highlighting of invalid path input and more.
There is another implementation of similar, though more limited and slightly different functionality, in the class DTCPathView.
/*
STPathTextField.m
Created by Sveinbjorn Thordarson on 6/27/08.
Copyright 2008 Sveinbjorn Thordarson. All rights reserved.
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STPathTextField is a subclass of NSTextField for receiving
and displaying a file system path. It supports path validation
and autocompletion. Autocompletion can use "web browser" style -
e.g. expansion and selection, or shell autocompletion style -
tab-expansion.
To use STPathTextField, just add a text field to a window in
Interface Builder, and set its class to STPathTextField.
See code on how to set the settings for the text field.
Defaults are the following:
autocompleteStyle = STNoAutocomplete;
colorInvalidPath = YES;
foldersAreValid = NO;
expandTildeInPath = YES;
There are three settings for autocompleteStyle
enum
{
STNoAutocomplete = 0,
STShellAutocomplete = 1,
STBrowserAutocomplete = 2
};
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