Hi Alex, Appreciate if you could show a little example.
Thanks. Angelo ________________________________ From: Alex Harui <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, 16 April, 2010 12:29:57 Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Reuse a LabelFunction If it were me, I would subclass DataGridColumn and add the labelfunction to the subclass. Then it has the DGC’s context like dataField to work with. On 4/16/10 7:40 AM, "valdhor" <valdhorlists@ embarqmail. com> wrote: > > > > >If it were me, I would use an item renderer. > >--- In flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com <mailto:flexcoders% 40yahoogroups. com> , >Angelo Anolin <angelo_anolin@ ...> wrote: >> >> Hi Amy, >> >> But as you can see in the function, I am specifying the Datafieldname from >> the object which was passed. >> >> How can I make it more generic so that I can re-use it in other datagrid >> columns? I hope you could provide some samples. thanks. >> >> Angelo >> >> >> >> >> ____________ _________ _________ __ >> From: Amy <amyblankenship@ ...> >> To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com <mailto:flexcoders% 40yahoogroups. com> >> Sent: Fri, 19 March, 2010 9:13:38 >> Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Reuse a LabelFunction >> >>  >> >> >> --- In flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com, Angelo Anolin <angelo_anolin@ ...> wrote: >> > >> > Hi FlexCoders, >> > >> > I have created a labelfunction which I use in my datagrid to format the >> > display value. >> > >> > <mx:DateFormatter id="df" formatString= "DD/MM/YYYY" /> >> > >> > And this is the AS function >> > private function labelFunctionTest( itm:Object, col:DataGridColumn) :String >> > { >> >    return df.format(itm. DataFieldNamefor Col1); >> > } >> > >> > Is there a way so that I could reuse the same label function to other >> > datagrid columns? As you can see from the script above, I am only using >> > the function to Col1 for the datagrid. How would I be able to specify >> > the datafield if I am going to reuse the same with other datagrid columns? >> >> That is what the DataGridColumn parameter is for. Look at its dataField >> property. >> >> HTH; >> >> Amy >> > > > > > > -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe System, Inc. http://blogs. adobe.com/ aharui

