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Leigh Roberts

Creating a Search Field with Google-like Predictive Autocomplete

QwireCast is a powerful casting list management app and one of its cool features is an autocomplete field that makes it easier to find actor names. Join Leigh Roberts as he shows you how to create your own Search Field with autocomplete capabilities. This search field fetches its data from a MySQL database and narrows results as the user types, sorted by relevance and alphabetically. You’ll see how this feature was designed and look at its actual source code, which will also be made available free to the Xojo community.

About Leigh
Leigh is co-founder of Qwire, a software company tasked with changing music licensing and royalty accounting in Hollywood. He is also a founder of QwireCast, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qwire. QwireCast is a desktop app that helps casting directors for film, TV, and new media manage their vast lists of talent.

Leigh has been using Xojo only since early 2018. As a self-taught computer programmer, he took on the task of moving QwireCast off of FileMaker and re-building it from the ground up in Xojo.

To date, he is perhaps best known as a music composer for which he has scored numerous film and television projects including “White Collar”, “Power Rangers” and “House, MD”.

An interesting fact/hobby/interest that others may not know about you.
I made two parody music videos from the 80’s! One about Rick Springfield, and one about Vlad Putin

Favorite TV show, band, and/or movie?
The Empire Strikes Back

If you could survive on only one food or meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Pizza, pizza, and pizza.