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How to create a Flash search engine

Author: Bill Trikojus

One of the great things about Flash is its ability to constantly change the content on the screen without the need to refresh the page.  This is particularly useful when creating a search engine as the user can continue to enter keywords until they have narrowed down the results enough to find what they were looking for.  In this tutorial we will walk through and add comments to a 'Live Search' example that is also available to download below.

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Use Actionscript 2.0 and a custom class to create live search functionality for your Flash website

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2010-02-04: gala said:
No this one doesn't work in FF or IE browser in any version

http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design/tutorials/flash/flash-search-engine-tutorial/video/p1/p1.html

I see very quite picture "Screencast Loading..." and that is it.

2010-02-04: Bill Trikojus said:
works fine for me. Try refreshing the page after it was been loading for a while.

2010-02-05: gala said:
No, It doesn't work...
Did you publish it somewhere else? I desperately want to see this tutorial.
I like your tutorials so much!


2012-02-02: diana said:
looking for search code in as2

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