.jpg search button

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Hello - I was ust wondering how I would go about linking a button to a keyword within a .jpg file, within a folder and making that .jpg appear within a window. The word that the button will search for will not be the full name of the .jpg, it will only be part of the .jpg file name… Thanks a bunch…

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Flash lacks acces to a directory tree. If you want to work with those jpegs, you need to have a list of them somewhere (i.e. XML file) and start from there. Finaly, when you have an array with filenames you can try something like this:

var filenames:Array = new Array("file1.jpg", "blueberry.jpg", "motorcycle.jpg", "strawberry.jpg");
function search(array:Array, keyword:String) {
	var searchResults = new Array();
	for (var i = 0; i<array.length; i++) {
		if (array*.indexOf(keyword) != -1) {
			searchResults.push(array*);
		}
	}
	return searchResults;
}
function searchAndLoad(keyword:String) {
	output = search(filenames, "berry");
	if(output.length != 0) {
		someContainerMC.loadMovie(output[0]);
	} else {
		trace("Sorry, no matches found for "+keyword);
	}
}
someButton.onPress = function() {
	searchAndLoad("berry");
};
someOtherButton.onPress = function() {
	searchAndLoad("moto");
};