Thanks! Works great. As usual it was something very simple, i'm sure i'll make use of the ListCollectionView class a lot more.
I didn't try the other suggestion by assing a new array collection the source from the copied but i'm guessing they are similar in nature. --scott --- In [email protected], "Paul Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Take a look at the ListCollectionView class - you can pass your 'master' > ArrayCollection into its constructor (because ArrayCollection implements > IList). You can then set filter options on your ListCollectionView > without affecting the 'master'. So you'd probably want to create a > ListCollectionView for each of your individual views: > > > > http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/mx/collections/ListCollection Vi > ew.html > > > > You can use a ListCollectionView as a dataProvider for your datagrid > controls because it implements the required interfaces (just like > ArrayCollection). The ListCollectionView will also listen for changes to > the underlying 'master' list and update accordingly. > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of scott_flex > Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 4:11 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] filterFunction issue with shared array collection > in model / shared list > > > > > I have a shared arraycollection of value objects. Singeton, only one > instance of this array collection. > > Dfferent views (in a tab navigator) are generated using this shared > array collection but each view filters the data in a datagrid list with > different criteria. > > So.. in each view i utilized the filterFunction to correctly filter the > array collection and only display what i needed into my datagrid. That > works great. > > However, when i set the filter function and refresh the arrayCollection > all my other views (tab windows) change as well because they are all > databound to the shared array collection... > > This does make sense... but not what i want. Maybe i need to put the > filter on the datagrid for each view, not the array collection. > > Am i going about this wrong? I'm a newbie cairngorm and i believe this > is an issue that others would run into. >
