creating an internal swf search function

[flashbbeb]

I got the idea to do this from an old e-learning Authorware tool a friend of mine created. Putting the search idea into a Flash paradigm:

I want a user to be able to enter a search string, and click on a result that takes them to a particular frame label OR loads an external movie. Of course that's supposed to be transparent to the user, who just sees the "topic" switch from one to the one matching their search string. I'm not at all sure how to implement something like this. And I'm only guessing on the origin of the searchable strings - XML text? global var text? frame label name? Just thoughts.

Any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks!

 

[kennethkawamoto]

You can either use database or simple internal variable, depends on the size of the data. If it's for say 100 frame labels, then you can store them in an Array and just go through them to see if any of them matches with the search string.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk