Flex Type Ahead List Boxes

When a user types a character the default behaviour of a list box is to jump to the first item that starts with that character. This is fine for small lists but for a long list of items it's not very useful. A better solution would be if the list box remembered what the user typed and keep looking for matches on the second character, the third character, etc etc.

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Flex Filtering Long Lists

If you have a list box with a large number of items in it it can be hard for someone to find the item in the list that they need. One way around this is you add a filter on the list box.

Here's how it's done.

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