Yep, correct about the headers scrolling too. My bad, was thinking about a List. Using Steve's suggestion, a Text control with truncateToFit=:true" will give you the ellipses and an automatic toolTip; if the text exceeds the size.
-TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "aceoohay" <pa...@...> wrote: > > Thanks for the advice... > > I was unable to use make the suggestion of removing the height from the > datagrid work. Even if it did work, wouldn't that cause the headers to scroll > out of sight? > > Regarding using an item renderer, I have been unable to find one that will > expand to the height available and then scroll. "TextArea" seems to display a > fixed height. What item renderer would you recomend? > > Regarding the elipses/popup, how do you know when to display elipses? > Generally the data is only a couple of lines, very infrequently is the data > bigger than the entire grid. > > Paul > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "valdhor" <valdhorlists@> wrote: > > > > What I do in this situation is to truncate the text in the cell and add > > elipses. If the user needs to see all the note text, they can click on the > > cell which opens a new popup. If the text is short enough, I use a tooltip. > > > > > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "turbo_vb" <TimHoff@> wrote: > > > > > > > How can I tell the datagrid to allow cell heights greater than the > > > grid height? > > > Even though it's not shown, the cell height is greater than the DataGrid > > > height. However, the DataGrid's scroll mechanism will always take you > > > to the next row, so this isn't an option. > > > > How can I turn on a scrollbar for the cell? > > > You can use an itemRenderer that has a maxHeight. Although, having > > > nested scrollBars is pretty bad for the user.A third option, if you > > > don't have thousands of records, is to put the DataGrid in a container > > > and do not set a height for the DataGrid. In other words, go ahead and > > > render all of the DataGrid items and have the parent container do the > > > scrolling. This would solve your problem by allowing smooth scrolling, > > > but would more of a hog when it comes to performance. But, if you don't > > > have that many records to show, it's a decent trade-off and much better > > > than the choppy scrolling that is native to the DataGrid. > > > -TH > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "aceoohay" <pauls@> wrote: > > > > > > > > I have a datagrid that displays text from a notes field. I have > > > variableRowHeight="true". This works well unless one record has a note > > > that is larger than the height of the entire grid. In this case I cannot > > > see the bottom of the note. It truncates the lines at the height of the > > > grid > > > > > > > > There is a scroll bar for the grid, but not for the individual cell in > > > the grid. > > > > > > > > Either of the following would solve my problem; > > > > > > > > How can I tell the datagrid to allow cell heights greater than the > > > grid height? > > > > > > > > -or- > > > > > > > > How can I turn on a scrollbar for the cell? > > > > > > > > Paul > > > > > > > > > >
