The following example shows how you can detect when a Flex ArrayCollection has changed (items added, removed, refreshed) by listening for the collectionChange event.
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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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The following example shows how you can filter items in a Flex DataGrid using a CheckBox control, and the ArrayCollection class’s filterFunction property.
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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.
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