Dynamic lookup using flex?

Hi Folks -
You know when you are typing a string in a search engine and as you type, options that match what you've typed so far appear in a box below the input field? I'm trying to recreate that kind of funtionality using flash/flex. Ideally, a keyup/press event would query the back end and have new data returned, which would populate the box with appropriate data.
I'm new to flex and don't know much about mxml. This could very well be something that is achieved easily, but I don't even know where to start. Does anybody know how I could achieve something like this on the front end? I'm not so concerned about the data and where it's coming from than how to make the UI part.
Any help would be great!

I think the challenge is in figuring out when to do the request for search to the backend. If you have fast turnaround time, you can probably send a new request each time the user types a character and bring back the results for it as they type - that may be overkill though. if this is the way you do it, then your filtering is done before it returns from the server. For performance reasons, you may wish to use a stored procedure in the database that does a regular expression search on your data ( only search the columns you have to.)
As for getting the data back: In the result handler, the function you specify [in the remote method call] to load the returned data into the local dataprovider, you could simply have it clear the dataprovider re-populate it and call refresh() on the dataprovider each time. I am not sure how that would appear to the user as it again depends on turnaround time from the backend, size of the dataset, etc.
I hope this gives you an idea at least. Without knowing more about your application and how it is architected, it is difficult to provide any "reasonable" recommendation. It is an interresting problem and one that sounds like fun to solve - of course, I am not sitting there with management breathing down my neck either.

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I think the challenge is in figuring out when to do the request for search to the backend. If you have fast turnaround time, you can probably send a new request each time the user types a character and bring back the results for it as they type - that may be overkill though. if this is the way you do it, then your filtering is done before it returns from the server. For performance reasons, you may wish to use a stored procedure in the database that does a regular expression search on your data ( only search the columns you have to.)
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