--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "anuj sharma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Charlie > Thanks for the link, it is good to know about that but unfortunately my > company would not allow me to talk to yahoo services. > If i can get hold of the complete code of how this service is generating > this search, that would be great help to me. Also to make things little more > clear, I need that the list will be updated as user starts type, so > basically there is already list having entries and when user starts typing, > the list should getting filtered. Hope I am clear, please let me know if you > have more guidance in that direction. > Thanks > Anuj > > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:21 PM, zwigby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, > > "anuj181" <anuj181@> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Guys > > > If you go to You tube and when you start typing stuff then you get > > > suggestions for the related text you types. I have requirement > > > something like this. I pulled the data in my list box and we have to > > > make it search able like if user starts typing in the text box say > > > 'Adobe..', the list containing the original data starts getting > > > filtered with the entries starting with name 'Adobe' . if the user > > > does not enter anything in the text box, he/she will receive the > > > original list with the complete data. My question to you genius guys > > > is that is it possible in Flex 3.0/AS 3.0 or should i go through > > some > > > other language. I read somewhere that it can be done using AJAX but > > I > > > like to achieve this functionality using Flex. > > > Please let me know if this is doable , any help/links will also be > > > appreciated. > > > Thanks > > > Anuj > > > > > > > Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for but the > > autocomplete manager component in the yahoo library is pretty good at > > this behavior. http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/astra-flash/ > > > > Charlie > > > > > > >
It is not a service but a component to use to create this autocomplete behavior. You simply use the yahoo component library swc in your Flex application. The manager will use whatever data you want it to. check out these examples for a better idea of how it works. http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/astra- flex/autocompletemanager/examples.html Charlie
