You could implement some sort of a transaction system where changes are queued to temporary places until committed.
Alex Harui Flex SDK Developer Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of tntomek Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Disable sort when values in grid change (on propertyChanged) Unfortunately scrolling is pretty important :) so is my only option to reset dataProvider with new sorted collection? --- In [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Alex Harui <aha...@...> wrote: > > Try blocking the collectionEvent. It will have kind = > CollectionEventKind.REFRESH. Note that any scrolling will be incorrect since > it will use the new sort order. > > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Developer > Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> > Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > From: [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>] On > Behalf Of tntomek > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:46 PM > To: [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] Disable sort when values in grid change (on > propertyChanged) > > > > I don't want my grid reordering itself on every propertyChanged event that > would cause the sort order to change, can I prevent this somehow? > > I understand this is default behavior but it's not an option for our > customer, and it is really annoying when the 1000 row grid is re-ordered > every time user changes any values, not to mention slow. > > I tried returning 0 from sortComparer with no luck, grid still seems to > reorder itself according to original data provider and not the sorted view > when sort() was set. > > Specifically using AdvancedDataGrid and I'm starting to run out of ideas. Do > I reset the dataprovider every time I decide to change my sort? I'm already > intercepting headerRelease and setting sort explicitly as well as calling > sort from controls outside the grid. How would I get the currently sorted > list from my ArrayCollection, does the baseclass CollectionView have a > current sorted view? Is there really no way to take a snapshot or current > view and set it to current? Is there a way to tell sort() to physically move > the rows instead of maintaining a view? > > What I found online: > http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=199554 > Not an option since grid is sortable, I just want to suppress the updates > AFTER initial sort >
