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use ::
<component:searchComp dataProvider=”{ArrayCollection}” filterProperty=”type”  width=”200″ />

This is how we can create a dyanmic filter funtion to work on different properties of object

private function filterFunc(item:Object):Boolean
{
if(String(item[filterProperty]).indexOf(searchTxt) >= 0)
return true;
else
return false;
}

Component Code ::

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<mx:Canvas xmlns:mx=”http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml” creationComplete=”onInit()”>
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;

private var searchTxt:String;
public var filterProperty:String = "label";

[Bindable]
public var dataProvider:ArrayCollection;

private function onInit():void
{
dataProvider.filterFunction = filterFunc;

}

private function filterFunc(item:Object):Boolean
{
if(String(item[filterProperty]).indexOf(searchTxt) >= 0)
return true;
else
return false;
}

private function onTextChangeHandler(event:Event):void
{
searchTxt = event.target.text;
dataProvider.refresh();
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Label id=”serch_lb” text=”Search”  left=”2″ top=”4″/>
<mx:TextInput id=”serch_txt” text=”" right=”2″ top=”4″ left=”50″ change=”onTextChangeHandler(event)”/>
</mx:Canvas>
see here :: http://jasmeetsehgal.googlepages.com/searchCompSample.html

Download the source and rename it to rar and unzip for using it