You'll want to work from the item renderer up; not from the data down: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui/2007/03/thinking_about_item_renderers_1.html
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Todd" <tpreka...@...> wrote: > > Hello All (probably one for Alex H), > I know I've seen this implemented before somewhere around the web, but I've > search for awhile and can't find it. > > I have a custom DataGrid that I've subclassed and do lots of trick > functionality on it. I pass it a search string, and only the rows that > contain that search string are displayed. > > Now, what I'd like to do is to customize the ItemRenderers so that the > portion of text in any ItemRenderer that matches the search string is > displayed in a different color and underlined. > > I know I've seen a demo of this somewhere? Any ideas? Or, any ideas how to > implement? > > My idea is to make a custom DataGridItemRenderer and set it at the DataGrid > level so each of the columns will use it. And then on the data property, > loop through each of the items being displayed and then format accordingly. > However, this seems inefficient, especially since I've already implemented > some filterFunctions on the dataProvider... > > Thanks for any suggestions. >
