There was a thread sometime ago about performance problems with large data sets and ExtenalInterface.
Why not skip that part. You could generate the HTML in Flex and put it on the clipboard directly using System.setClipboard(sHTML); Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dominic Pazula Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] DataGrid and exporting values Like a lot of people, I've been wanting to export values out of a data grid and into a file. I decided that I didn't want to go with the round trip to the server. Instead, I use the ExternalInterface to call a js function that opens a new window and writes the values into a HTML table (uses js and the DOM). I have a "copy all" button that selects the table and copies it to the clip board. The user has to just then open Excel and hit "paste." Slick, or so I thought. I'm having performance issues -- any table of decent size takes forever to write to the window. The js that is doing the heavy lifting is: for (i=0; i < data.length; i++){ j = 0; var newRow = winTable.insertRow(-1); for (j; j < data[i].length; j++){ var newCell = newRow.insertCell(j); var newText = win.document.createTextNode(data[i][j]); newCell.appendChild(newText); } } Does anyone have suggestions on what I can do to speed this up? Thanks Dominic PS Once I have this in decent working order, I will be happy post all the code.
