Tony - Ihave the same problem. Also, I don’t understand how it does rowCount - if I try to useuse {dp.length} where dp is the dataProvider, half the time it’s OK, half the time I get those blasted scrollbars. Sometimes I use dp.length+1 or +2 (thinking perhaps the headers are being included) and sometimes that works, but it’s not reliable.

rowCount is the only mechanism I’ve been able to think of to display the entire datagrid without scrollbars (trying to do it via height is a crapshoot). Ideally I would like the entire Application to render itself outwards so that the height of every component is the sum of the heights of its children.

Sorry… off on a tangent.

Cheers

GT
France

You can sort of work around this by adding a blank row to the grid, so it thinks there are at least 2 rows and the scrollbar will render, however, even when you do get a scroll bar, if the text block is large enough, it still doesn’t scroll properly to let you see everything, it just jumps to the blank row instead and you miss the rest of the data in the larger row.

I ran into this post searching for an answer to a problem using this technique. If you have this exact setup, using variableRowHeight=”true” and a column that “wraps”, and put only one row in the data grid, which exceeds the height of the datagrid, the scroll bar will not appear, and trying to force the scroll bar to appear basing it off the measureHeightOfItems and the height of grid can produce a scroll bar, but it’s greyed out.

I’ve seen there are a few bugs related to variableRowHeight, but hadn’t seen a solution to my issue.

To recreate just setup your grid say with a height of 200 pixels and set variableRowHeight=”true” and a column with wordWrap=”true”. Then push one row of data to it that has enough data to force the row height beyond 200 pixels or use carriage returns in the data, etc and the grid will not render the scrollbar.

Peter can you confirm this to be a bug, is there a work around?

You could probably make a custom item renderer which renders HTML text and then use the
tag.

I’ve never tried it, but it should probably work.

Peter

Yup, i need this too

Not sure if you’re still reading, but I posted a/the solution as a new entry. You can check it out at: “Using a Flex TextArea control as a drop-in item editor”.

Hope that helps,
Peter

Unfortunaly it seem that if you are in edit mode (ie datagrid.editable = true)
and you clic into cell then it is put all in a single line.

Do you know how to edit like textarea?

Thanks

Fred