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refresh data source in Autocomplete

I am using the Autosomplete example I got from here: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5973 for Flex 3. when the application launches it grabs the data for the autocomplete from a SQL database and builds an array collection> this same data is used on 2 different screens. The issue I am having is that if you launch the app and go to screen 1 and type some letters in the AC control (say you type C for example) then select a value from the list of possible matches. Then you go to screen 2, the data only contains values that match what was typed in screen 1. How do I tell it once I leave one of the screens that the data has to be refreshed?

wannabetechie

Are you using same instance of the AC control in both the screens?If so is this a requirement for you.
And when the AC filterFunction is invoked does it do a filter on the Datasource itself.
If you then you may need to reset the filterFunction everytime.

PsychoDazey

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What do you mean by using the same instance? I believe I am but I am a novice flex programmer so I'm not sure what you mean. Als, how would I reset the filterFunction?

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PsychoDazey

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Thanks wanna -
Your solution of the dummy filterFunction worked. However for those following along; there were other issues so I ended up finding another component to use. The autocomplete from my link above is older and not as robust as some of the others available.