How would I go about making a search function that can locate an array of buttons?
The buttons direct to movieclips. The purpose is to have a search field in the flash project to help find specific movieclips (the buttons that direct to them, anyway) based on criteria using arrays. I am using Flash8, but have access to CS4 if necessary.
Long story short: I want to search a multidimensional array in AS3 for (in this example) the location of 6 strings - all of which are stored in another unrelared array. Long story long: Once I get the locations (in the multidimensional array) of each string, i then know where it's located, and can access other atributes of that object - so if i found the string "box3" is located in element [5] of my multidimensional array, i can now target: multiArray[5][3] to return the 4th item stored (keeping in mind we're starting from 0, so 3 is the 4th position).
I can get this to work once, but I'm trying to set up a for loop based on the length of my basic string storage array - this array holds (in this example) 6 instance name strings - each time my for loop loops, i need to run a search in my multdimensional array for the next consecutive instance name. Then, once I've located all of them (and store the results in a new temporary array) I can dig around in each location for the info I need.
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I have an array index problem. I have an Array that holds some strings. I am trying to write a function that receives a string variable (user input)and searches for that string in the array. for that i tried to use "ArrayName.indexOf(input_variable)" but this always returns -1 even if the string which the variable holds is in the Array.
This is the script:
public static function ValidName(inputName:String = ""):Boolean {
trace(validNames.indexOf(inputName));
if (validNames.indexOf(inputName) > -1) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}}
I've started a project a while ago, so far it is almost done but there is something that I seem not to be able to do alone... I would like to add a search function which I don't know how to do.It will not be a normal search function so I am going to try to beak it down with an easy example:
Let's say I did a project that is embeded somewhere in a normal html page with a main menu from where you can get to different city maps (e.g. New York, Paris, Berlin). The maps are seperate swfs. On all those maps there are several buttons for historical sites (or whatever) with a mousover function and a link to a page with more information about that specific site (on html).the names of the buttons are always a letter and a number (New York: "N1","N2","N3"...; Paris: "P1","P2","P2"... instance name for P1 is p1_btn)
What I need now is a search field in the main menu where you can search for those buttons. Meaning if I type in "N2" and hit search it will take me to the New York swf and show me button "N2".
I know this might not make much sense like this but the actual version is quite different and more complicated context-wise. Therefore if possible I would like to leave it that way with the main menu, the linked swfs and the buttons.
I've got a flash movie that reads in an XML file and has an input text box. When you type something in the input box, I want to search through the XML and return the names of the elements that match whatever is currently in the input box, even if its only partially complete.The input box has an event listener of type Event.CHANGE on it and it runs the following function.
Code: Select allfunction searchWords(e:Event):void {[code].........
How to use array to do 3 flash buttons with onclick function?
View 1 RepliesThe content of the array respuesta is: Africa, Europa, Norteamerica. The content of the array resultado is: Incorrect, Correct, IncorrectI created a Array to include both of them:
var contPre:Array = [ this.respuesta, this.resultado ];
and then:
for ( var row:int = 0; row & lt; contPre.length; row++ )
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How should I go about creating a search function that will be able to search and retrieve a particular nod from the array.Sth to do with .toLowerCase() and getIndexOf? The search function should be able to search and retrieve any text that contain the letter/letters... not the whole word. Like for example if user enter "gre", it should retrieve results containing "great" and so on.
View 2 RepliesI need to find a way to search through an array of grades and find grades that fall into levels such as[code]...
View 14 RepliesYou see, I would like to make a login page that retrieves the username and password from a text file. All login information is stored in an array, which looks like this:& Users =::: Name1 | username1 | passwords1 |::: Name2 | username2 | passwords2 |::: Name3 | username3 | passwords3 |I want to find in my arrayif the user is authorized. If it is authorized, I would like to send the name (Name1, for example) into a text box. How do I do?
View 3 RepliesI am working on an application in Actionscript 3.0 that is working with twitter, I got as far as getting the tweets I want in an array but now comes the hard part: I only want to show the tweets that mention another twitter user. Now I know that mentioning another user in Twitter always with an @ (like @username). So I want to show all tweets with an @ in it.
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I have a small array with some elements and a big array with all the elements. I want to search in the big array the small array to see if they exist. Is there a function to do that ?
View 2 RepliesAlright, so within my final swf I need to have a function that searches, but not searches the internet (such as integrating a google or bing search). It will be searching though data that I have already collected. My data is in the form of CSV (comma separated values). I already load in the csv and all that jazz, no problem (using url loader). I put the data into an array. I can conduct the search in a few ways and I was wondering what everyone in the forum thought would be the best way. The data also gets attached as parameters to objects that I put on the stage, if that matters.It must return all things in the array that match the string typed in the search, and not just the first match it finds.
View 4 RepliesSo i need to search through a multidimensional array.. here is an example of what the user will see when searching the array
First name:
Last name:
grade:
now what i wana do is make it so the user can search through the multi/array with the first name to find the last name and grade that goes along with it... here is my failed attempt.
ActionScript Code:
var dataArray = new Array(new Array(), new Array(), new Array());
var tempArray = new Array();
var eMode = null;
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I am working on an application in Actionscript 3.0 that is working with twitter, I got as far as getting the tweets I want in an array but now comes the hard part: I only want to show the tweets that mention another twitter user. Now I know that mentioning another user in Twitter always with an @ (like @username). So I want to show all tweets with an @ in it.[code]And off course that's not going to work, it only displays the tweets that match exact (all 140 chars) with the search var. After some searching I found this:[code]
View 1 Repliesi have a variable 'val' and 5 arrays 'roomNums1' - 'roomNums5' i want a script to search one of those arrays ... i can get it to search one array but i can't get it to search the array with the name 'roomNums+val'
so if val = 2
i want it to search roomNums2
at the moment I'm just telling it to trace the array that I want (for testing purposes) and the script reads:
trace (roomNums[val]);
but that takes the 3rd value in the array and traces it if val = 2
i'm not sure how to add the value of the variable val onto the end of the array's name so the correct one will be traced
I have a video player embedded in flash and done in AS2. It takes the playlist from an xml file. I want to add a search function so that it lists related videos on searching and each result would be clickable so that the corresponding video plays.
View 0 RepliesI'm trying to detect multiple elements in an array. My countTicks:Array contains mostly numbers and below you can see I'm using "logical AND" to try and find them.
The problem is, once I have more than 2 "logical ANDs" (&&) the trace gets called. Which it shouldn't because the array wouldn't yet hold those numbers.
PHP Code:
countTicks = function(){
for (var i = 0; i < tickCount.length; i++){
if (tickCount[i] == 1&&2&&4&&5){
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i do have problem with searching through my multi-dimensional Array to insert newly value to currently existing value..what I have now....
Code:
var someArr:Array = new Array(["apple"],["orange"],["watermelon"]);
so what I wanna do is I able to search the desire valeu 1st and append to existing value eg;
word search = apple
match and I can append new value to this particulars array and my expecting result new array after append new value
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var someArr:Array = new Array(["apple","expensive"],["orange"],["watermelon"]);
I'm trying to create a simple xml search function that searches an xml file for a string, and if that string is found in the xml, display the node which contains that string in a text box.I have the simple search function working, but what I can't do is return the specific node. Right now, the function is returning all the xml data instead. If someone could take a look and possibly lend some guidance as to how to return the specific daya, I would be much oblidged. Hope this makes sense, if not, let me know and I'll do my best to clarify.[code]
View 6 RepliesI'm working on a project where I'll need to create a search function to search through a whole chunk of XML generated through the database. [code]...
View 0 RepliesI've got this simple GUI that has a search box and a couple result fields for "Word" and "Definition"...I've also got an XML file with about 800 or so terms and definitions.Currently the flash works just fine, it reads in the XML glossary, splits it into a word array and definition array and when I search through it, it creates a List filled with terms that match the string that I search for. We wanted it to update the list of possible matching terms each time you changed the search term: a, ap, app, appl, apple... etc.
Everything works, its just incredibly slow when you throw 800 terms at it to search through.I was wondering if anyone could either optimize my search somehow, show me another way of doing it.Here is the code pulled from the whole GUI.
ActionScript Code:
var glossary_xml:XML;
var xmlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("glossary.xml");[code].........
Is there a method, such as via AS or Remoting, to create a site search tool within a Flash movie?First post here, but a long time visitor to Kirupa. Great site!
View 3 RepliesI am populating an array employees (shown at the bottom) with data from a MySQL database table. To locate employees that statisfy a complex criteria, I am using a loop like so:
var emplyees:Array = new Array();
var i:int;var counter:int=0;for (i=0;i<employees.length;i++){
if((employees[i].city=="London")&&(employees[i].age<30)){ counter=+; }}if(counter==0){ trace("No such emplyees")}else{ trace("Found "+counter+" employees.")}"
It works fine, but I think it is cumbersome and potentially slow with large amounts of data. Is there a better way of doing this?
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I have a standard array with some text items and some numbers.
Here is an array item
ge: 65, (no quotes around this number)
Here is the DataProvider line (the section that applies to my example)
DataProvider([{label:"over 60", data: 65}]);
Here is the search line
for (var n; int = 0; n<arrayname.length; n++
arrayname[n]. Age == search_age.selectedItem.data
This works fine because the array number MATCHES the selectedItem data number (65) exactly and I get all records where age is 65
BUT I want to find records whose age is any number "greater than 60"
I have tried many ways to use the > sign and keep getting an error, example:
DataProvider([{label:"over 60", data: >60}]);
or
DataProvider([{label:"over 60", data: (>60)}]);
or
DataProvider([{label:"over 60", data: >(60}]);
None of these work.
Maybe these aren't numbers? I've tried putting 'int' in various positions with no results. I'm using a DataGrid which works fine for text items and will find numbers without quotes around them (if those numbers match whats in the array!).
What's the way to write this so I can get records greater than, or less than, etc.?
Premesis:I am using actionscript with two arraycollection containing object with value to be matched...Let's assume I have two list of elements A and B (no duplicate values) and I need to compare them and remove all the elements present in both, so at the end I should have
in A all the elements that are in A but not in B
in B all the elements that are in B but not in A
now I do something like that:
for (var i:int = 0 ; i < a.length ;)
{
var isFound:Boolean = false;[code].....
I cycle both the array and if I found a match I remove the items from both of the array (and don't increase the loop value so the for cycle progress in a correct way).I was wondering if (and i'm sure there is) there is a better (and less CPU consuming) way to do it...
i do have problem with searching through my multi-dimensional Array to insert newly value to currently existing value..here's the scenario...what I have now....
Code:
var someArr:Array = new Array(["apple"],["orange"],["watermelon"]);
so what I wanna do is I able to search the desire valeu 1st and append to existing value eg;
word search = apple
match and I can append new value to this particulars array and my expecting result
new array after append new value
Code:
var someArr:Array = new Array(["apple","expensive"],["orange"],["watermelon"]);
I want to vreate a recursive function that will search through my xml tree and display all the leaves(node values); this is the function that I wrote:
function searchXML (theItem) {
trace("theItem.*.length() "+theItem.length());
trace("theItem.* "+theItem);
trace("--------------------------------------");
if (theItem.*.length() > 0) {
searchXML(theItem.*);
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I'm working on writing an application that searches through xml data using a kind of "advanced" search. Users can filter data based on combobox data.Here is my xml:
Code:
<backgrounds>
<background name="Grassy Green" author="GBLM" description="A Grassy Meadow - perfect for brightly themed logos!" category="general" game="modernwarfare2" system="xbox360" colors="green yellow" tags="grassy,green,field,bright,gblm,"[code].....
It pretty much searches through the attributes, and also filters through some. The theory is that in my combo boxes, I also have a choice with blank data, so that way if they choose that it will not filter, because every string has an index of "". I have a few questions: Also, I keep getting this error:
Code:
TypeError: Error #1006: value is not a function.
at testfile2NEW_fla::MainTimeline/searchPopulate()
at testfile2NEW_fla::MainTimeline/searchPopulateHandler()[code].....
Here is another thread I posted on a similar issue to this: http:[url]....I load my images into a TileList component as well. The xml is already loaded into my movie fine, and the images load fine into the TileList component, but my concern is making the Search feature accurate.
I need some help with a flash app im currenctly programming. I have a management flash app that does some operations in a MySql databases. I have had some problems, but for the most part, I have been able to press on. I'm a flash AS3 newb, so bear that in mind.
My actual problem is that I need to do a "Search" module, and I need it to print several results at once. I am although unsure how to get the results on flash. what I have been doing now is calling a php script that, after doing its operation, does something like (for example):
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