Hi Alex Thanks for the feedback. Sorry I must be being a bit dim here, do you have some example code to point me to?
I find Flex great fun and easy to use. I have built an MP3 player and used datagrids and the docs covered this really well. But I cannot find this stuff in the docs and so could do with a pointer here. Thanks -D On 10/16/07, Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You want to set selectedItem if you can get your hands on the exact item in > the dataprovider. Otherwise, you have to scan for the item in order to > figure out the index of it and set selectedIndex. If you have sorted your > collection, you can use findAny on an IViewCursor, but that essentially does > a scan too. > > > Because there are different ways to scan, it is not a feature of the controls. > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jeffry Houser > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Can the Datagrid do this ? > > > I think selectedIndex needs an integer. You'd have to loop over the > data provider, figure out which one has capital==Paris' and then set the > selectedIndex based on that. > > You could also experiment with selectedItem; although I haven't > experimented with setting that. > > d coda wrote: > > > > > > Hi all > > > > I need to programmatically select a particular row in a datagrid and > > cannot see how it is done. I want to do the same as if the user > > clicked on a row only programmatically. > > > > Say I had a DataGrid with ID=dg containing two columns Countries and > > Capitals. > > > > I want to be able to issue a command like: > > > > dg.selectedIndex = dg.capitals=="Paris "; > > > > ie to select the row that contains Paris in the Capitals column. > > > > As if the user selected the France/Paris row only doing it > programmatically. > > > > I am thinking it must be a feature but cannot find it :( > > > > Please shed some light or even let me know if what I want sounds crazy. > > > > -D > > > >
