What I did was to create a function that does the matching.
Call a function on the change event of the text input, it fires for each
character entered:
private function getFilteredItems(sFilterString:String):void
{
var sFilterString:String = tiFilter.text;
var xmlTemp:XML = new XML(<generatedsection />);
var xlFilteredItems:XMLList;
xlFilteredItems =
_xmlData..item.(itemContains(attribute("item"),sFilterString))
xmlTemp.setChildren(xlFilteredItems);
_xmlCurrentSection = xmlTemp;
}//
The "itemContains()" function looks like this:
private function itemContains(sItem:String, sMatch:String):Boolean
{
sItem = sItem.toLowerCase();
sMatch = sMatch.toLowerCase();
return (sItem.indexOf(sMatch) != -1);
}//contains
Tracy
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of donvoltz
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:02 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [flexcoders] Filtering XMLList (ala search)
Is it possible to have a search field whose text property is bound to
a function that is called when the field is changed. I would like to
use what ever is typed into the search field to filter an XMLList that
is bound to a datagrid. I would like this to filter dynamically with
each letter typed. I have been able to use e4x filtering of a list for
a given tag, however, this is only for a full piece of data such as
lastname == 'smith'. what I would like to do is when an S is typed,
all of the S lastnames are filtered.
Thanks for any help in advance
Sincerely,
Don
