Flash XML Applications

19The Search Engine (Part 1)

Overview

We are now ready to approach the search engine, which will be covered in the next two chapters. As before we need to plan which objects will be in the movie and where we place them. Figure 19.1 shows the final movie, which we want to produce.

Figure 19.1 Outline of the database movie

We will first create the base search engine, which is covered in this chapter. We then add a Next–Previous module and a Save Search option, as we did for the Flash 8 application. Although we try to write the code as efficiently as possible and try to omit unnecessary code, our application will be ready only when it has passed ...