How to make a search bar?

[thinkinaboutmemories]

Hello!

I’m basically trying to make a search bar for my command bar frame. How would I do this?

I’ve looked on youtube, devforums and on dizzy servers but couldn’t how to make it.

[un1ND3X (ice)]

Have a Textbox for your search bar and use :GetPropertyChangedSignal("Text") to check whether the current text or a match from it was found under a string container and return the most closely matching string.

A post by Crazyman shows something like this, in case that’s what you’re trying to achieve.

Roblox In-game Textbox Predictive text

Here’s a really over-simplified algorithm. I used this sort of method for a small-scale call center application at my job recently. Basically you just check if the searched string contains part of the name (or vice versa). In the “Display results” loop near the bottom, you could update a UI instead of printing the names. It determines the score simply by how much of a match was made. Perfect matches score larger. It does this simply by finding the absolute size difference between the two string…