How to do auto-completion in EditText node?

bingrunj

I'm trying to auto-completion in EditText node with custom syntax. After searching for a while I didn't find a demo or video realize or talk about it, only the Godot main document has some kind of completion theme setting. Can anyone give me some hints?

cybereality

It wouldn't be anything specific to Godot (unless there is some functionality in the API, but I doubt it). You'll probably just need to parse the text yourself. You could start with regex, but you may need something more advanced depending on what you are doing.

cybereality

Here is a page that may give you some ideas. https://www.vipinajayakumar.com/parsing-text-with-python/

bingrunj

@cybereality said: It wouldn't be anything specific to Godot (unless there is some functionality in the API, but I doubt it). You'll probably just need to parse the text yourself. You could start with regex, but you may need something more advanced depending on what you are doing.

Thanks for the advice, sorry I'm still confused at a point that if I get those strings as an array, how do I show them and even let users choose them in a submenu just like the default gdscripit editor? Do I need to research to draw a panel for it?

cybereality

Yes, you could make a container with buttons in it appear.

bingrunj

OK, thank you very much!