From kde-core-devel  Mon Dec 27 14:58:24 1999
From: Cristian Tibirna <ctibirna () total ! net>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 14:58:24 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KCompletion
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On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:

> I wrote a generic class KCompletion, which makes this possible.
> You have to supply completable words to it and then ask it whether some
> string (the user just typed) matches something. KCompletion then returns a
> completion of that string, if available.

Thank you, Santa Carsten. Neat gift.

> Now KCompletion is only the backend, so Dawit Alemayehu did a great job
> writing KLineEdit and KComboBox so that they make use of KCompletion.
> Using those is a very easy and consistent way to offer completion in your
> application.

Go for it. This will be an excellent overall improvement for KDE-2. We
have to remember to list it in the ChangeLog file at the release :-)
 
I wish you health and to-be-used-for-KDE-work-free-time in the new year.

Cristian