Flash Professional Extension

AutoComplete

By alariccole August 05, 2005
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The AutoComplete component adds inline text completion to input text in your Flash movie/application. Works the same way many desktop applications and operating systems do. INSTRUCTIONS: To use AutoComplete, simply drag and drop it onto a TextInput component, TextArea component, or any other input text. AutoComplete will automatically associate itself with the text field. Any text typed into the field will be remembered. -- works with both version 2 components and native Flash text fields ! -- -- adds no visible parts at runtime and virtually nothing to the size of your document -- FEATURES: AutoComplete has a number of features and options available both while authoring and at runtime. You can choose, for instance, whether or not it is case sensitive. Choose the "unique" property to choose whether to provide the same completion for each text field (default) or to to work independently for a specific field. (For instance, set "unique" to "true" for a search field in your application to only show text completion for entries in that field.) AutoComplete works with Data Binding as well--for example, bind the "enabled" property of AutoComplete to a CheckBox component, letting the user decide whether to remember the text they entered. Because AutoComplete can work with even password fields, this is a particularly useful feature. AutoComplete can remember thousands of entries and has been designed to work quickly and efficiently. AVAILABILITY: AutoComplete is built using ActionScript 2.0. It works with both version 2 components and native Flash text fields (input text). DETAILS: To use the drag and drop feature, drop the component with the mouse pointer in the midst of the object you wish to snap to. You will notice that snapping has worked when the component's _targetInstanceName field changes to the object's instance name. (If the target does not have an instance name, AutoComplete will name it for you.) You can always manually choose the text field you want to manage by changing the _targetInstanceName property to the instance name of a text field. To see the component align with its target, for more feedback and a cleaner workspace, make sure that snapping is turned on in your Flash workspace -- (View > Snapping > Snap to Objects).

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UI Access:
This component can be accessed from the Components panel under "Global Images".