I forgot to mention I am using the drop-in renderer
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "hoytlee2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have an AdvancedDataGrid that uses an XMl file as the dataProvider. I have > in the XML > file some attributes that are set to false or true. When I run the app, I > see the correct > values in the column true or false. > > So I would expect that adding in an ItemRenderer using the CheckBox as the > component > would return a column full of checkboxes that are checked when the value is > true and not > checked when the value is false. > > What I get are the checkboxes but everything is not checked. I am completely > baffled by > this and have triple checked my code following the simple examples I've seen > in all the > documentation. > > The only thing I can think of is that somehow the true and false values from > the XML > attributes are treated differently (as String?) and not as boolean values. I > wrote a > labelFunction to convert the strings to booleans, but that didn't work > either, so I am at a > lost. > > (I've also used a simple DataGrid and got the same behavior) > > Is there something about using data from an XML file? I've noticed that all > the online > examples I've seen always seem to use Arrays as the dataProvider. > > Thanks in advanced. > > be well, > Hoyt >