The DP makes a new copy of the items and sorts them, leaving the old items in their original untouched array or xmllist.
I don't quite get your issue, but I hope that helps. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cobpez Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 9:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] What happens with dataProvider when you sort a List control? Hello, I just found both Flex and this group. So here a newbie problem: I have a DataGrid (AdvancedDataGrid even) that gets populated from an XML source. Selecting an item in the list selects it in another place of the application too (let's call it "Space") and also some of the item's data is shown in a form. Additionally clicking the item in Space selects it in the list and that form is populated the same way. The way I link from Space to the list is through an "id" attribute of the Space items. Something like so: list.selectedItem = _xml_source.items.item.(@id==space_item.id); It all works well until I sort the DataGrid. Then that selection expression returns null. I've tried see why in the debugger, but I can't see it. What am I missing here?
