Function tabComplete

Engine/source/console/console.cpp:461–578

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U32 tabComplete(char* inputBuffer, U32 cursorPos, U32 maxResultLength, bool forwardTab)
{
   // Check for null input.
   if (!inputBuffer[0]) 
   {
      return cursorPos;
   }

   // Cap the max result length.
   if (maxResultLength > MaxCompletionBufferSize) 
   {
      maxResultLength = MaxCompletionBufferSize;
   }

   // See if this is the same partial text as last checked.
   if (String::compare(tabBuffer, inputBuffer)) 
   {
      // If not...
      // Save it for checking next time.
      dStrcpy(tabBuffer, inputBuffer, MaxCompletionBufferSize);
      // Scan backward from the cursor position to find the base to complete from.
      S32 p = cursorPos;
      while ((p > 0) && (inputBuffer[p - 1] != ' ') && (inputBuffer[p - 1] != '.') && (inputBuffer[p - 1] != '('))
      {
         p--;
      }
      completionBaseStart = p;
      completionBaseLen = cursorPos - p;

      // Bail if we end up at start of string
      if (p == 0)
      {
          return cursorPos;
      }

      // Is this function being invoked on an object?
      if (inputBuffer[p - 1] == '.') 
      {
         // If so...
         if (p <= 1) 
         {
            // Bail if no object identifier.
            return cursorPos;
         }

         // Find the object identifier.
         S32 objLast = --p;
         while ((p > 0) && (inputBuffer[p - 1] != ' ') && (inputBuffer[p - 1] != '(')) 
         {
            p--;
         }

         if (objLast == p) 
         {
            // Bail if no object identifier.
            return cursorPos;
         }