If you store it as a string, it will get sorted as a string, and XML is all strings. If you convert XML to objects, you can get a numeric sort.
You can probably fake the # by factoring rowIndex + verticalScrollPosition, but then you can't sort on that since it is autogenerated, and any other sort will change those numbers. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Indra Prastha Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Datagrid default sorting and row number Hi guys, I need help about working with large data in a datagrid. I have a datagrid that displays about 500 + rows which gets data from my backend in XML (http service, resultFormat = e4x ). Right now I want to display the row number for the data grid in the first column "No.", without actually sending <no>row#</no> xml child in the data that is sent from the backend, i tried using example from the documentation using listData function, it works fine only for the displayed data, what i mean is that, since there are 500 data and the datagrid only shows about 15 first (the rest u have to scroll down) when you scroll down, the number resets (means the 16th row shows the row number as 0 again). Found no other way to programmatically counts the row and display it in the datagrid, i included <no>row#</no> in the XML being sent and works like just i wanted .... UNTIL I click on the header and tried to sort it ascending / descending. Now flex instead of sorting my data 1 to 500 or 500 to 1 , it thinks that these numbers are string and sort them like a string -> ascending sort will result in sort like this 1,10,100,101,102...109...2,20,200,201 ..... and vice versa for descending. Any suggestions ? Thanks again. Cheers! Indra Prastha, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ERP Team @ DataOn Corp.
