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.
Full code after the jump.
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.
Full code after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Sorting XML documents using an XMLListCollection’
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 order.
Full code after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Sorting an ArrayCollection using the SortField and Sort classes’
