Hello FlexCoders, I am trying to implement a datagrid filtering mechanism to datagrids in my application.
In this process, I want to show a popup window where it would act like a response window. The popup window will contain three controls, namely, two comboboxes, and a textinput control. One of the combo box would contain the columns currently displayed in the datagrid. The other combo box would contain common comparison operators (i.e. =, !=, >, <, like, etc.). Of course, there would also be two buttons - OK and Cancel to perform the filter operations. I found a popup panel example here.. http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/06/creating-custom-pop-up-windows-with-the-popupmanager-class/ But in this example, he is defining the content of the popup panel. Since we know that the controls in the popup panel is fixed, would it be possible to just create another control which contains the controls we have defined? Then, the combobox panel would be populated with the columns in the datagrid where it was called. When the column selection from the combo box is made, the operator also selected and the text input is filled up with the value to filter, clicking on OK button would filter the datagrid. Another reason that I wanted that the filter mechanism reusable because I have a lot of mxml with datagrid that requires the same filter functionality. It would not be too good if I would place all the codes in each mxml, right? I am not sure if this approach would be good. If in case you have other approach on how to filter the datagrid, kindly let me know. Thanks.
