Hi, just looking for advice on the most appropriate way to approach this (or links to existing examples) :)
I've got a DataGrid, and the items use a subclass of NumericStepper. This stepper validates itself depending on the total of *all *items in that column (i.e. it styles itself green if the column-total adds up to, say, 100, or red if the column-total is <> 100). In other words, a single itemRenderer needs knowledge of the values of ALL renderers in that column. I'm aware that itemRenderers should only take care of setting themselves, due to recycling - (ie Adobe don't intend developers to get hold of a list of all renderers, cycle over them and set properties on them externally). In this case however, in order to validate a *single *renderer I need to know about the total of all renderers within a single column. Currently I have things working - I give each renderer knowledge of its owner's dataProvider - then, in the renderer's validation method I loop through all items in the dp, total them up and set the style accordingly. However, this feels wrong. Also, it's not so bad if I have a PercentageStepper, where I could hardcode the total as 100, but what about columns where the user has a set amount of cash, and the total of all Steppers must equal that cash-value? In that case, using my setup, *each *renderer also needs to know the total cash amount, which means setting it on each renderer (easy to do, but again it feels wrong). So in a nutshell I guess I'm saying, what's the preferred way of validating an itemRenderer, when the validation of that renderer depends on properties of all the itemRenderers in that column? Thanks
