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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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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.

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