Filtering an MX DataGrid control by date range using Flex

By Peter deHaan On February 1, 2010 · 19 Comments

The following example shows how you can filter an MX DataGrid control in Flex using two MX DateField control’s and filtering the ArrayCollection data provider.

 

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Using a Slider to filter items in a DataGrid control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On September 12, 2008 · 1 Comment

In a previous example, “Using a CheckBox to filter items in a DataGrid in Flex”, we saw how to filter the items in a Flex DataGrid control based on whether the user selected a CheckBox control or not.

The following example shows how you can filter items in a Flex DataGrid control using an [...]

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Determining when an ArrayCollection changes in Flex

By Peter deHaan On May 14, 2008 · 10 Comments

The following example shows how you can detect when a Flex ArrayCollection has changed (items added, removed, refreshed) by listening for the collectionChange event.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Resetting a sort on a DataGrid control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 8, 2008 · 2 Comments

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.

Full code after the jump.

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Using a CheckBox to filter items in a DataGrid in Flex

By Peter deHaan On March 12, 2008 · 21 Comments

The following example shows how you can filter items in a Flex DataGrid using a CheckBox control, and the ArrayCollection class’s filterFunction property.

Full code after the jump.

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Sorting an ArrayCollection using the SortField and Sort classes

By Peter deHaan On August 5, 2007 · 38 Comments

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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