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 ________________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of donvoltz Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:02 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 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