I need to post the displayed data to a server, complete with formatting. The dataProvider does not help much; I'd have to replicate the work that the datagrid does in determining the properties displayed by each column, and duplicate the job of the item renderers in order to extract the displayed property of each column.
I see that itemRenderers can be created ad hoc, so it must be possible to shove data into them and obtain the displayed values. ... it is nice to get a response, and so quickly too :)

