The following example shows you how you can display all the getters/setters and their current values for a Flex TextArea control by using the describeType() method, some E4X filtering, and an XMLListCollection.
Full code after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Displaying all the properties of a component instance in Flex’
The following example shows how you can create a custom sort on a Flex DataGrid control by using the SortField class and creating a custom compare function.
Full code after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Creating a custom sort on a DataGrid control in Flex’
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.
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The following code is a brief example of sorting a Flex XMLListCollection using the Sort and SortField classes, and the XMLListCollection.sort property. We also look at filtering the XMLCollection using a custom filter function.
Full code after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Sorting and filtering data in an XMLListCollection’
I actually searched around and couldn’t find any other examples of this, but here is a quick example of using the <mx:Sort /> and <mx:SortField /> MXML tags in Flex to sort an XMLListCollection.
Full code after the jump.
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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.
Continue reading ‘Sorting an ArrayCollection using the SortField and Sort classes’
