Full [...]]]> One of my favorite Flex components is the the trusty DataGrid. It seems whenever I build some sort of application or sample, I need a DataGrid to show all sorts of debug data or what have you. Here is a simple little example of a DataGrid with multi-line content and a variable row height.

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The following example demonstrates how to set up a DataGrid control to word wrap certain data grid columns, and allow each row to have a variable row height, depending on the amount of text in each row:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/07/23/creating-multi-line-data-grid-rows-with-variable-row-heights/ -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" backgroundColor="white" layout="vertical">

    <mx:Array id="arr">
        <mx:Object articleName="Finding out a characters Unicode character code" data="15" />
        <mx:Object articleName="Setting an icon in an Alert control" data="14" />
        <mx:Object articleName="Setting an icon in a Button control" data="13" />
        <mx:Object articleName="Installing the latest nightly Flex 3 SDK build into Flex Builder 3" data="10" />
        <mx:Object articleName="Detecting which button a user pressed to dismiss an Alert dialog" data="9" />
        <mx:Object articleName="Using the Alert control" data="8" />
        <mx:Object articleName="Formatting data tips in a Slider" data="7" />
        <mx:Object articleName="Downloading the latest Adobe Labs version of Flex 3 SDK/Flex Builder 3 (codename: Moxie)" data="6" />
    </mx:Array>
    <mx:ArrayCollection id="arrColl" source="{arr}" />

    <mx:DataGrid id="dataGrid" dataProvider="{arrColl}" variableRowHeight="true" width="100%" height="100%">
        <mx:columns>
            <mx:DataGridColumn id="articleName" dataField="articleName" headerText="Name of the article in question" wordWrap="true" />
            <mx:DataGridColumn id="data" dataField="data" headerText="ID of the article" />
        </mx:columns>
    </mx:DataGrid>

</mx:Application>

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