Hello Kglad:

Thanks again for your great help, this is part of the xml it has as 100 names, but I send only this little part.

have a nice affternoon.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<othername>

<name name="Sebastian Gonzalez Cruz" address="Coronel Calderon 412 Grado:  Segundo"/>
<name name="Clara Salazar." address="Bolivia 1261 Grado:  Cuarto"/>
<name name="Gustavo Ramirez Tellez" address="Dolores del R. 115  Grado: primero"/>
<name name="Gerardo Novela Cuellar" address="Lazaro Cardenas Grado:  Quinto"/>

</othername>

HELLO KGLAD:

Excuse me, I was confused, to understand this code I used the first function "changHandler"

like this, then  it call is "whateverfilteringtext" function?, 

function changeHandler(event:Event):void {

      var xml:XMLList = XMLList(loader.data.name(@name.indexOf(whateverfilteringtext)>-1));

       var dp:DataProvider = new DataProvider([xml@name,xml@address]);

}

dg.dataProvider = dp;

// Is this function like this ?

function whateverfilteringtext(obj:Object, idx:int, arr:Array):Boolean

{

  var txt1:String = itemTextInput.text;

          var txt2:String = obj.name.substr(0, txt1.length);

          if (txt1.toLowerCase() == txt2.toLowerCase()) {

                    return true;

          }

          return false;

}

I was tried to test but it mark this error:

1084: Error de sintaxis: se esperaba rightbracket antes de ampersand, in the next line

"var dp:DataProvider = new DataProvider([xml@name,xml@address]); "

I hope don't bother you but I am a very beginner with flash as3.

Thanks a lot

Regards.

Joselyn

Hi, Kglad :

My intention, is to display a large list of names, if somebody search an specific name will do it in a TextInput wrinting the first and/

Well, in the code you send me where says  "whateverfilteringtext" instead is "name" or "address"??

function changeHandler(event:Event):void {

var xml:XMLList = XMLList(loader.data.name.(@name.indexOf(name)>-1));

var dp:DataProvider = new DataProvider([xml@name,xml@address]);  //

}

After this function the other will be if the TextInput return something true or false nothing,  can I use this function?

function filterTextinput(obj:Object, idx:int, arr:Array):Boolean
{

var txt1:String = itemTextInput.text;
var txt2:String = obj.name.substr(0, txt1.length);
if (txt1.toLowerCase() == txt2.toLowerCase()) {
  return true;
}
return false;
}

Thanks again for your great help.

Nice day!

Regards

Joselyn

Good Day Kglad:

Excuse, I do what you said, I copy and paste but it gave an error:

1084: Syntax error: expecting rightbracket before ampersand. Line 93

THIS IS THE LINE:

var dp:DataProvider = new DataProvider([xml@name,xml@address]);   

// textInput  changeHandler function

function changeHandler(event:Event):void {

var xml:XMLList = XMLList(loader.data.name.(@name.indexOf(itemTextInput.text)>-1));

var dp:DataProvider = new DataProvider([xml@name,xml@address]); 

// you may want to switch rows and columns which would look like:

/*

var a:Array = [];

for(var i:int=0;i<xmlList.length();i++){

  a[i] = [xmlList[i].@name,xmlList[i].@address]

}

var dp:DataProvider=new DataProvider(a);

*/

dg.dataProvider = dp;

}

Thank you in advance Kglad

Regards

Joselyn

Hello Kglad:

Thank you very much for your patience, let me say the code didn't indicate any error,

but do not return anything when introduce some text in the TextInput,

need to write more code?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Nice Day!!

Joselyn

Good Day Kglad:

Thank you for your commens, I assume you mean this code is correct?

You can see it, it is in the first code that I send to you.

var itemTextInput:TextInput = new TextInput();

itemTextInput.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, changeHandler);

So I tried to trace the changeHandler but maybe I cannot to do that sorry

it gave me errors.

maybe it can something like this

trace(itemTextInput.event.CHANGE) ?????

thankyou for your patience again

Have nice day!!

Joselyn

HI KGLAD :

kglad I'm very sorry to you, but I regret to say that  do not throw anything the "trace" and any error either, I copy and paste the code exactly as you sent me, only loads the xml datagrid.

Excuse me please

Could you say me what's wrong? Do you belive that the xml is bad?

thanks a lot.

Have nice day!

Joselyn

Oh, Thank you very much Kglad, I am going to see the file,

Of course that your helpfull was very large,

especially helped me to learn more about this topic.

Thanks for your great help again.

Happy weekend

Good day!

Kglad:

I download the file, but maybe it was saved in other version cause I cannot open, could you please saved it in flash cs4 ?

I don't understand if my answer was wrong, just click where it say "Was this helpful?" and click "yes", is that?

Thanks very much

Regards

Joselyn