User input : tell target

[chitrasrinivasan]

I have a text feild with variable name "userinput".When the user types in a keyword there,I want a movie clip to play.I got this right so far.
But i have 100 such movie clips,how can i make a different mc play when the user types in different names.

if else if action is not yielding the reqd result.

I hope to make this an alternative to regular search options found on websites where yo ureference an enternal cfm or jsp file.

Any ideas how this can be achieved...some sample code would really help.
Tks.

[gparis]

on (release) {
loadMovieNum ("movie"+Number(_root.userinput)+".swf", 1);
}

assuming "userinput" is directly on _root.

If you name all your 100 movies as movie1.swf, movie2.swf, movie3.swf etc.. all the user has to do is enter a number in the userinput textfield and click on the submit button which bears the above code.
gparis

[RazoRmedia]

on (release) { 
loadMovieNum (_root.userinput+".swf", 1); 
}

[Peter G]

Are you looking for multiple keywords for each movie?
...like a search field on a website?

[chitrasrinivasan]

Hi,

I have 100 different movie clips in the same .swf...they are not different swfs...so i guess load movie cannot be used.

Peter :Multiple keywords would be my next step...i wanted to get the first step working first...but yes...i want it to work like a search option in a website works.

any possiblities ?
Tks again.

[Peter G]

ok... that's what I figured... here's what I'd do- have all of your 100's of movie clips inside one clip on your main stage. let's call it container:

on your submit button:
on (release){
_root.novaluesreturned=true
timeoutclip.play();
for (name in container){
if (name==_root.userinput){
container[name].play();//or do whatever
_root.novaluesreturned=false;
break;
}
}
}

the timeoutclip should be an empty (or "searching...") clip that lasts ~10 seconds. at the end of the clip say "no matches found" or something like that. you'll need to play with the timing and format on this one.

if you want to do multiple keywords for each you can make another movieclip an call it 'arrays' keep this clip full of arrays only, no other objects. name each array for the movie clip its keywords match.

then, your for loop will look more like:

for (name in arrays){
for(i=0;i<=arrays[name].length;i++){
if(arrays[name][i]==_root.userinput){
_root.container[name].play();//or do whatever
_root.novaluesreturned=false;
break;
}
}
}

just a couple of ideas, they'll definitely need tuning.

[Kendall Apex]

I am trying to develop a way where by a users input can determine the number of fields in a form e.g. the inputs the number 3 then the form would have 3 fields

can you show me or point me in the direction of an example i can look at and manipulate?