Getting autocomplete to work in swift
Replace your searchAutocompleteEntriesWithSubstring
function content with the one below. I hope it would help you.
func searchAutocompleteEntriesWithSubstring(substring: String)
{
autocompleteUrls.removeAll(keepCapacity: false)
for curString in pastUrls
{
var myString:NSString! = curString as NSString
var substringRange :NSRange! = myString.rangeOfString(substring)
if (substringRange.location == 0)
{
autocompleteUrls.append(curString)
}
}
autocompleteTableView.reloadData()
}
The table was not appearing because the UITextField delegate was not to self in viewDidLoad. There was another final issue with the table not showing the autocompletion results, but this is also fixed. Ray Wenderlich's basic Objective-C autocompletion tutorial converted to Swift:
class ViewController: UIViewController, UITextFieldDelegate, UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource {
@IBOutlet weak var textField: UITextField!
@IBOutlet var autocompleteTableView: UITableView!
// @IBOutlet weak var autocompleteTableView = UITableView(frame: CGRectMake(0,80,320,120), style: UITableViewStyle.Plain)
var pastUrls = ["Men", "Women", "Cats", "Dogs", "Children"]
var autocompleteUrls = [String]()
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
textField.delegate = self
autocompleteTableView!.delegate = self
autocompleteTableView!.dataSource = self
autocompleteTableView!.scrollEnabled = true
autocompleteTableView!.hidden = true
}
func textField(textField: UITextField!, shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange, replacementString string: String!) -> Bool
{
println("banana")
autocompleteTableView!.hidden = false
var substring = (self.textField.text as NSString).stringByReplacingCharactersInRange(range, withString: string)
searchAutocompleteEntriesWithSubstring(substring)
return true
}
func searchAutocompleteEntriesWithSubstring(substring: String)
{
autocompleteUrls.removeAll(keepCapacity: false)
println(substring)
for curString in pastUrls
{
println(curString)
var myString: NSString! = curString as NSString
var substringRange: NSRange! = myString.rangeOfString(substring)
if (substringRange.location == 0)
{
autocompleteUrls.append(curString)
}
}
autocompleteTableView!.reloadData()
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
}
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
return autocompleteUrls.count
}
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell
{
let autoCompleteRowIdentifier = "AutoCompleteRowIdentifier"
var cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier(autoCompleteRowIdentifier) as? UITableViewCell
if let tempo1 = cell
{
let index = indexPath.row as Int
cell!.textLabel.text = autocompleteUrls[index]
} else
{
cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.Value1, reuseIdentifier: autoCompleteRowIdentifier)
}
return cell!
}
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
let selectedCell : UITableViewCell = tableView.cellForRowAtIndexPath(indexPath)!
textField.text = selectedCell.textLabel.text
}
}