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The following example shows you how you can display all the getters/setters and their current values for a Flex TextArea control by using the describeType() method, some E4X filtering, and an XMLListCollection.

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The following example shows how you can create a view cursor to find a specific item within an ArrayCollection.

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The following example shows how you can create a custom sort on a Flex DataGrid control by using the SortField class and creating a custom compare function.

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Resetting a sort on a DataGrid control in Flex

by Peter deHaan on April 8, 2008

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The following example shows how you can reset a sort on a Flex DataGrid control by setting the ArrayCollection data provider’s sort property to null and refreshing the array collection using the refresh() method.

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I’ve seen this question come up a few times recently in various forums/lists and even in my blog comments (see “Changing the default sort arrow skin on a Flex DataGrid control”).

The following example shows how you can display the sort arrow in a DataGrid control in Flex without having the user click on a column header in the DataGrid control.

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The following example shows how you can sort an XML document by converting it into an XMLListCollection and applying a sort. You can also easily reverse the current sort by calling the SortField object’s reverse() method and refreshing the XMLListCollection object.

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The following code is a brief example of sorting a Flex XMLListCollection using the Sort and SortField classes, and the XMLListCollection.sort property. We also look at filtering the XMLCollection using a custom filter function.

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I actually searched around and couldn’t find any other examples of this, but here is a quick example of using the <mx:Sort /> and <mx:SortField /> MXML tags in Flex to sort an XMLListCollection.

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Sorting an ArrayCollection using the SortField and Sort classes

by Peter deHaan August 5, 2007 ArrayCollection

Sometimes in life you just need data to be sorted. Whether its a case insensitive sort (for names) or a numeric sort (for, uh, numbers), you just want things sorted in a particular order. This example demonstrates how you can take a bunch of random numbers in an ArrayCollection and sort them numerically in ascending [...]

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