Exploring Actionscript 3 and Flex 2 makes a lot of fun! I created this google application in about two hours and the result looks nice. I have got some sweet resize effect, a data grid and a lot of window and button stuff. I am in love with Flex 2 and AS3!
The application itself is doing the following: After the user enters something to search for a PHP script gets loaded. This serverside script is only used as a proxy. It does not turn the Google website into some nice XML. I am using Flash to parse all the results. And I have to say it is pretty fast. To give it some more sense I added some lines of code that request the PHP script ten times to get 100 (possible) results.
This simple experiment shows what the new functions of Flash can do and how easy it is. You could have done this in other Flash versions of course. It is only an experiment and some sort of tutorial.
You see how to use regular expressions, the DataGrid and of course an URLLoader. The whole sourcecode is very simple and easy to understand. Have a look!
The concept is good. But it is not working (or not showing the result) at my end. I am using flash 8.5 player
It doesn’t work for me, too. Please tell me what to do, to get this working, I have to install flash every time I reload the page…