Re: [flexcoders] Manipulating data before it populates the DataGrid

2006-10-16 Thread Harish Sivaramakrishnan
my bad, I should have said Collection. You are right - Having said that, you still can use the utilities on the collections to manipulate the data on the datagrid before the actual population.ThanksHarish On 10/16/06, Douglas Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: [flexcoders] Manipulating data before it populates the DataGrid

2006-10-16 Thread Iko Knyphausen
Ahh, thats what I was looking for. Thanks much. -Iko From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas Knudsen Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 10:55 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Manipulating data before

Re: [flexcoders] Manipulating data before it populates the DataGrid

2006-10-15 Thread Douglas Knudsen
look at the labelFuntion attribute of the grid column tag. This give you the ability to massage the displayed value in a column. You can also bind using a function if you need more done to the data provider like this: dataProvider={ doSomething(myData) }DKOn 10/14/06, iko_knyphausen [EMAIL

Re: [flexcoders] Manipulating data before it populates the DataGrid

2006-10-15 Thread Aaron West
If you're using an ArrayCollection to populate your grid you could always edit/adjust or otherwise manipulate the data in your event handler. For instance, if you're using Web services, you can loop the data coming from the server and manipulate it as you add it into your ArrayCollection. Or, as

Re: [flexcoders] Manipulating data before it populates the DataGrid

2006-10-15 Thread Harish Sivaramakrishnan
I suggest you take a look at the fiterFunction and labelFunction methods on the datagrid. Since the datagrid dataprovider is an arraycollection, you can apply all utilities that are available on the arraycollection class to manipulate what you display in the datagrid finally HarishOn 10/16/06,

Re: [flexcoders] Manipulating data before it populates the DataGrid

2006-10-15 Thread Douglas Knudsen
'Since the datagrid dataprovider is an arraycollection'I don't mean to pick at this statement, but I was browsing through the source for DataGrid today, glutton for punishment I know. The code trail eventually leads to ListBase.as. In the dataProvider setter it appears that this is not always