Problem with the autocomplet and dot character

[Guillaume]

Hello,

I used the autocomplet with "words" containing the dot character (for example X.a, X.b and Y.z ),
when the caret is just before the dot there is no problem the autocomplet popup displays the good choices (X.a and X.b if X has been typed) , but if the caret is after the dot (for example I typed "X.") the autocomplete open popup with all completion (X.a, X.b and Y.z). The autocomplet should display only X.a and X.b !?

Thank

[robert]

Is your CompletionProvider a DefaultCompletionProvider or a subclass? If so, you'll need to override the isValidChar(char) method to include '.' as a character that is accepted as part of an identifier to auto-complete.

The default implementation:

java code:

/**
 * Returns whether the specified character is valid in an auto-completion.
 * The default implementation is equivalent to
 * "<code>Character.isLetterOrDigit(ch) || ch=='_'</code>".  Subclasses
 * can override this method to change what characters are matched.
 *
 * @param ch The character.
 * @return Whether the character is valid.
 */
protected boolean isValidChar(char ch) {
	return Character.isLetterOrDigit(ch) || ch=='_';
}

You can override it to look like this, for example:

java code:

protected boolean isValidChar(char ch) {
	return super.isValidChar(ch) || ch=='.';
}

[Guest]

thank you very much it works

[GroG]

Thanks,
This helped me too.