Programmatic Auto-Complete

[steezware]

I have a multi-line control with 'Autocomplete defined that works great. What I would like to do is have Nomads auto-complete open when I programmatically assign values to the control, using for example, MULTI_LINE WRITE.  But it seems auto-complete only works on keyboard entry. I've tried setting signal-all-changes and messing around with PREINPUT and forcing focus onto the control and so forth, but no luck.

Can autocomplete be made to work without direct keyboard entry? If so, sample code showing how please?

Thx!