Problem
When a Click command has an option/argument typed as click.Path(...), Trogon renders it as a plain Input widget with no filesystem awareness. Users have to type the full path from memory (or tab out to a terminal to check), which is a significant UX gap for any CLI that deals with files or directories.
Proposed solution
textual-autocomplete (same author, MIT licensed) ships a ready-made PathAutoComplete widget that attaches live, incremental filesystem completion to any Input:
from textual_autocomplete import PathAutoComplete
PathAutoComplete(target=my_input, path=Path.cwd())
It would be great if Trogon detected click.Path parameter types (including exists=True, file_okay/dir_okay flags) and automatically attached a PathAutoComplete to the generated Input for that field, seeded from the relevant root (cwd, or a configurable default).
Why this matters
Right now, generating a form from a CLI that takes file/directory arguments produces a strictly worse experience than just running the command manually with shell tab-completion. Wiring in PathAutoComplete would close that gap and make Trogon-generated forms competitive with a real shell for path-heavy commands.
Notes
- Confirmed in the current release (0.6.0) that textual-autocomplete is not a dependency and there's no autocomplete logic in the
form-generation code — this looks like an open gap rather than something misconfigured on my end.
- Happy to help prototype this if there's interest in a PR — I have a small standalone example wiring PathAutoComplete into a Textual Input that could serve as a starting point for the integration.
Problem
When a Click command has an option/argument typed as click.Path(...), Trogon renders it as a plain Input widget with no filesystem awareness. Users have to type the full path from memory (or tab out to a terminal to check), which is a significant UX gap for any CLI that deals with files or directories.
Proposed solution
textual-autocomplete (same author, MIT licensed) ships a ready-made PathAutoComplete widget that attaches live, incremental filesystem completion to any Input:
It would be great if Trogon detected click.Path parameter types (including exists=True, file_okay/dir_okay flags) and automatically attached a PathAutoComplete to the generated Input for that field, seeded from the relevant root (cwd, or a configurable default).
Why this matters
Right now, generating a form from a CLI that takes file/directory arguments produces a strictly worse experience than just running the command manually with shell tab-completion. Wiring in PathAutoComplete would close that gap and make Trogon-generated forms competitive with a real shell for path-heavy commands.
Notes
form-generation code — this looks like an open gap rather than something misconfigured on my end.