How to accept user input in thesaurus api to display synonyms using flash as3

Question

am working on a project to develop a thesaurus app using flash as3. However my app works fine but it only displays the synonym for the word already being put inside the thesaurus API url. However, I want my app to allow any user input through the input text field. Is there a way to do that? Many thanks in advance. I use "Big Huge Thesaurus API" for synonyms. For example in below API URL only synonyms for word "mother" are displayed.

" http://words.bighugelabs.com/api/2/958af28ac9e3b21c650cbdd24a2466e8/mother/ "

Here is my full code.

button1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadScores);
function loadScores(e:MouseEvent):void {
    var fileLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
    fileLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, scoresLoadComplete);

    fileLoader.load(new URLRequest("http://words.bighugelabs.com/api/2/958af28ac9e3b21c650cbdd24a2466e8/mother/"));

}

function scoresLoadComplete(evt:Event):void {
    try {

        var returnVars = evt.target.data;
        highscores.htmlText = returnVars;

        trace("Data retrieved successfully");
        for (var myVars in returnVars) {
            trace(myVars + ": " + returnVars[myVars]);
        }

        trace("***********************");

    } catch (err:Error) {
        trace("Can't parse loaded file: " + err.message);
    }
}

Answer 1

Have an input text box in your application and set its instance name to "userinput" and change the following line in your code.

fileLoader.load(new URLRequest(" http://words.bighugelabs.com/api/2/958af28ac9e3b21c650cbdd24a2466e8/mother/ "));

to

fileLoader.load(new URLRequest(" http://words.bighugelabs.com/api/2/958af28ac9e3b21c650cbdd24a2466e8/ "+userinput.text+" /"));