How to list suggestions to when typing inside the text field

Question

Hi in my Java swing application I need to show all possible existing entries with same initial characters while user typing in a text field. Lets say user type letter \'A\'

Answer 1

You could use the autocomplete package from SwingX. Google for "swingx autocomplete" if you need more real life examples, but the simplest way is creating a JComboBox and calling AutoCompleteDecorator.decorate(comboBox); on it.