Hi Alex Thanks for that - I understand what you meant in your reply to the other guy now - just me being slow.
I will give it a try. Chris --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui <aha...@...> wrote: > > A collection is either sorted or not, and if there is a sort, it won't let > you re-order. One way to allow re-ordering is, after a Sort (and the > CollectionEvent.REFRESH event), copy the sorted results into an unsorted > collection using toArray on the sorted collection. > > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Developer > Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> > Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On > Behalf Of chris.cobb40 > Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 10:23 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] DataGrid Column Sort Prevents Drag From Updating > DataProvider > > > Hi > > I think I've seen this commented on before on flexcoders so sorry for the > duplication. > > In the reply the person who asked the question was told to turn off the > Column Sort and that would do it but won't this reset the sort order back to > default before allowing the drag ? > > I want to cater for the situation where the user might want to sort the > DataGrid into reverse alphabetical order and then just drag the resulting > first row to be the second one. > > Maybe I'm using the wrong method of turning off the column sort - I set the > sort property of the ListColection DataProvider for the DataGrid to null and > then refresh ? > > Any sugegstions please ? > > Thanks > > Chris >