Building a search module UI in Swing which is similar to SO tagging

Question

I'm building on top of an existing UI which is in Swing. I need to add a search module wherein the user can enter search terms which should be auto-complete'd.

I'm considering building a UI very similar to Stackoverflow's 'tagging a question' feature. So in my use case each 'tag' would be a search term.

I'm completely new to Swing or UIs in general and have very little clue on how to start.
Any advice/pointers on how and where to start would be of great value to me.

Note that is is 'Swing' not 'Swings'. – Andrew Thompson Mar 09 '12 at 04:18 — Andrew Thompson, Mar 09 '12 at 04:18

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

2

there are two ways

exactly same way is implemeting Filtering for JTable (there started after 2nd or 3rd chars typed)
of use AutoComplete JComboBox / JTextField

edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

Community

1
1

answered Mar 08 '12 at 12:32

mKorbel

109,525
20
134
319

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 08 '12 at 12:31

You should use and ArrayList where every time someone types a keyword into the search box and clicks find, the program goes in a while loop and searches all topics with that particular tag. and hence can be displayed later as a list with found solutions.

Building a search module UI in Swing which is similar to SO tagging

2 Answers2