> this field should re-paint itself on sorting of any other fields. Do you mean that the first row in the grid should always say "1", regardless of how the list is sorted? If that is the case, you'll want to create an itemRenderer that implements IDropInListItemRenderer, and then displays the rowIndex property of BaseListData. This is probably a good starting point:
http://jessewarden.com/archives/2006/10/checkbox_item_r.html HTH, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "flxcoder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "flxcoder" <flxcoder@> wrote: > > > > I want to have a serial number field in my datagrid that increases or > > auto increments with each row. Is this possible? this field should > > re-paint itself on sorting of any other fields. > > > any ideas here? surely, flex has a way to have a serial number auto > incrementing column value for the datagrid... >