Well, you can do this programatically pretty easily. I guess you could encapsulate the logic in an extended DataGrid.
Suppose in the "columnConfigs" setter function, you simply build the columns array? I suspect you'd need to ensure the columns are built before the dataProvider is assigned. Have you done a dynamic column datagrid yet? Here is an example. It uses logic in the structure of the dataProvider item to build the columns, but could just as easily use the data in the columnConfigs ArrayCollection. http://www.cflex.net/showFileDetails.cfm?ObjectID=552 Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of letterpigeon Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 3:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Datagrid with dynamic columns Hi, I'm trying to extend to the DataGrid class (call it DynamicDataGrid) to make it work with dynamic column definition (# of columns and names of columns will be fetched at runtime) so that I can use this datagrid by giving it an array collection as dataprovider (this arraycollection contains only data) and another array for column configuration. Following is what I've done: I extended DataGrid to contain one more variable "columnConfigs:Array" (this array contains objects of type ColumnConfig which has headerText and columnCode as its instance variables). In the setter of columnConfigs, I set the headerText for each column of the datagrid. but the DataGridColumn does not have columnCode field, so I figured I need to extend DataGridColumn as well (DynamicDataGridColumn). But i can't think of a good way to make DynamicDataGrid to use an array of DynamicDataGridColumn for its "columns" attribute without knowing much about the internal implemenation of DataGrid. Could anyone give me any suggestion? Or if you have a better way of achieving I'm trying to do here, please help. Thanks. Ban
