Your suggestion worked perfectly. I created a custom item renderer as a vbox which contains the checkbox control, now works as expected - thanks!!
--- In [email protected], "valdhor" <valdhorli...@...> wrote: > > I may be wrong (Someone correct me if I am)... > > The built-in item renderer sees the field as a string and decides that > an empty string will be false and non-empty will be true for the > checkbox. It does not convert the string value of "false" to the > boolean value of false. > > You will need to create a custom item renderer for that field. > > See http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui/item_renderers/ for details. > > > > --- In [email protected], jmsavoy <jeremysavoy@> wrote: > > > > > > I have a checkbox as an itemrenderer in a datagrid as follows: > > > > <mx:DataGrid dataProvider="{myArrayCollection}"> > > <mx:columns> > > <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Sent" width="75" > > textAlign="center"> > > <mx:itemRenderer> > > <mx:Component> > > <mx:CheckBox click="data.Sent=!data.Sent" > > selected="{data.Sent}"/> > > </mx:Component> > > </mx:itemRenderer> > > </mx:DataGridColumn> > > </mx:columns> > > > > > </mx:DataGrid> > > > > The dataProvider is an AC pulled and created from mysql db. This is > trimmed > > version of my datagrid, in the full version there are many other > columns, > > and they all display the correct data. > > > > The value "Sent" is a text string either "true" or "false". However, the > > checkbox is always checked, regardless of the value of "Sent" being > "true" > > or "false". > > > > If I set all "false" values to NULL, i.e. not set in the database, then > > those items do not display as "checked" - however this is not the > desired > > method, I would rather have them set to "false" and not NULL > > > > Has anyone else seen this issue, or can anyone shed light on the > problem? > > Thanks ! > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Flex-3-checkbox-as-itemrenderer-in-datagrid%2C-%22selected%22-property-boolean-not-working-tp21131337p21131337.html > > Sent from the FlexCoders mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > >
