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Frame 2 - Filtering the List
Note: This frame does NOTHING first time around.
This is where the link filtering happens. This is the only frame in this entire project that is really unique and that I can take credit for. Although to be honest, I got the idea from Microsoft's 'Help' index system, where this same effect happens. I liked it. I wanted one. So I made one. There are no really original ideas are there? Just new implementations of old ones. The logic: Here is where I sat down with pencil and paper and pre-thought out exactly what I wanted the script to do in order to perform the filtering list. In many cases, I highly recommend sitting down with pencil and paper BEFORE touching the computer. You will end up saving yourself a LOT of time. It also helps to break large problems into the smallest possible pieces. The individual components of how this works were easy to solve. When I first though 'Hey this is what I want to do...' the overall project was to complex for me to solve all at once. So here are the individual components I broke the problem down to to be more easily programmed: I decided:
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Creating an Active Search List
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