That's exactly how I have done it. But like I said, the problem is that I am modifying data model and that will cause a prompt for data save.
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Les Bantleman <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Idealy the itemRenderer should be responsible for renderering (not > searching). Have you considered adding a property to the data row object > which can be used to flag if the row matches the search term? A search > procedure could iterate the dataProvider updating this (boolean) flag. The > renderer could then simply highlight search matches based on the flag. Just > an idea. > > Les > > > > On 15 July 2013 19:35, mark goldin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Here is my problem. I need to keep data that would drive text selection > > somewhere. Ideal place is a dataProvider. But using dataProvider creates > > another problem. Change manager reports about data being changed, > because I > > am updating dataProvider. How can I avoid using datagrid's dataProvider > for > > storing text highlights coordinates? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Gary Young <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > I think Alex is right, each renderer instance should do the search by > > self, > > > because of virtual layout, datagrid only keep creating/reusing the > > renderer > > > insts in the visible area, so the performance will be great. -Gary > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:57 PM, mark goldin <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > That means I need to store selection coordinates somewhere in the > > > > dataProvider to reapply selection every time datagrid is scrolled. Is > > > that > > > > correct? > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > The principle of virtual renderers is that they would do their > > > > > highlighting as they get scrolled onto the screen, not all at once. > > > > > > > > > > On 7/12/13 5:11 PM, "mark goldin" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >No, I am not filtering dataprovider. I need to search thru all > cells > > > in > > > > > >the > > > > > >column and highlight all instances of search text at once. Can be > > > > hundreds > > > > > >of rows. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >> I'm not sure what are you trying to accomplish. You could > filter > > > the > > > > > >> dataprovider so that only rows with text hits are shown in the > DG. > > > > That > > > > > >> code would not be in the renderer. Otherwise, code in the > > renderer > > > > that > > > > > >> finds text hits in the data item it is responsible for should > only > > > be > > > > > >> called for visible rows if you are using virtual layout. > > > > > >> > > > > > >> On 7/12/13 2:18 PM, "mark goldin" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > >> > > > > > >> >I need to come up with a solution for searching a text in a > > column. > > > > > >>What I > > > > > >> >have now is clearly showing that the following function in the > > item > > > > > >> >renderer: > > > > > >> >private function > > > > > >> >onTextSearchEvent(event:ApplicantformTextSearchEvent):void > > > > > >> >{ > > > > > >> >var _startingPosition:int = > > > Question.text.search(event.textToSearch); > > > > > >> >trace(_startingPosition); > > > > > >> >if (_startingPosition != -1) > > > > > >> >{ > > > > > >> >Question.selectRange(_startingPosition, _startingPosition + > > > > > >> >event.textToSearch.length); > > > > > >> >} > > > > > >> >} > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> >does not print dataPrvider.length times as what I would want. > But > > > how > > > > > >>can > > > > > >> >I > > > > > >> >show a number of text instances being found if it does not go > > thru > > > > > >>every > > > > > >> >row in the datagrid? > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
