Andrew Trice
Real-World Rich Internet Applications
Thursday November 16, 2006
A Contribution to Flex Search
Yesterday, Ted Patrick released Alpha 1 of the flex.org search. It is a search engine designed specifically to search Flex resources, to help developers find the answers that they are looking for quickly and easily. It is still in its early phases now, but could prove to be a very useful tool for many people.
I took a few minutes to play around with Ted's code and came up with a minimalist interface for the search, with inline previews of the content. Just enter a search query, click on a row, and POW, its right there inline with the code. It uses the Flex-Ajax bridge to listen for the itemClick event on the datagrid, so that there is very minimal user interaction necessary.
You can check it out here...
http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/blogs/andrew.trice/flex_search/bin/search.html
