There is enable/disableAutoUpdate, but adding rows one at a time is inefficient. Just concat the two arrays and replace the dataprovider
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of whatabrain Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 3:23 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] How to temporarily stop a dataProvider from updating UI I've found that adding a lot of rows (1000+) to an AdvancedDataGrid can be quite slow, if the rows happen to be visible (in an open node of the tree). I don't know why this is the case, especially since it's not the case in a regular DataGrid, but I'd like to work around it. So how can I tell the AdvancedDataGrid to temporarily ignore updates to the dataProvider? Once the large number of rows have been added, I'll turn the automatic updating back on, for the slow trickle of updates that come after that.