if your using a combobox or textinput or anything which implements IDropInlistItemRenderer, then you can do this in your data setter
var myListData:DataGridListData = DataGridListData(listData); var myDataField:String = myListData.dataField; valueYourInterestedIn = data[myDataField]; --- In [email protected], "generalxxaxx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am generalizing an item renderer so that I can use the same > component on different columns in a datagrid. > > The glitch I've run into at the moment is figuring out how to access > the different bits of data. > > Specifically I have an itemrenderer that works great for the column > containing data.itemprice > > I want to change my component so that it will work on data.itemprice > and data.total > > I thought I could use a setter to pass in a string with either > "itemprice" or "total" into the component. > > But then how do I use that string to extract the value appropriate to > the given column. > > Sorry if this is a trivial xml question, but I'm in the situation > where my need for results outstrips my opportunity to gracefully > expand my knowledge base from the ground up. > > Regards, > Claude >
