datatips are the responsiblity of the renderer. Your renderer will have to call the dataTipFunction and assign the results to a tooltip property on some component in the renderer. -Alex
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nate Pearson Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 2:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: dataTipFunction on DataGridColumn with custom itemRenderer? I have the same problem Todd. Wondering if anyone has any insight or if you have solved this problem. --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Todd Breiholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it just me, or is it not possible to set a dataTipFunction on a > DataGridColumn that uses a custom itemRenderer? > > I have the following DataGridColumn defined: > > > <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Days" dataField="daysOfWeek" > sortable="false" editable="false" > itemRenderer="com.meredith.newmedia.bhgdesktop.view.admin.blogDaysIcon" > width="40" showDataTips="true" dataTipFunction="showDaysToolTip"/> > > And my function is defined like this: > > public function showDaysToolTip(obj:Object): String { > trace("in showDaysToolTip"); > return "testing"; > } > > But this is never getting called. > > Am I doing something unsupported? > > Thanks! > > Todd >

