actually, my data is of type number and I am using a label function to display it in a currency format. I just used the commas to improve readability for my forum post.
here is the actual data: 16559240.56 28022462.90 4101969.43 6472891.11 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If your data is 28,000,000, the DG will now sort alphabetically because > that isn't number, but rather a string. I actually think the old > behavior just chopped off 28, 16, 6 and 4 and sorted by those numbers > such that 28,123,456 and 28,234,567 weren't guaranteed to be ordered. > > > > If you want numeric sorting, data should be of type int or Number and a > labelFunction should be used to format what you see. > > > > This behavior become more strict in order to fix a bug where there was > no way to specify non-numeric sorts in mixed alpha/number strings. > > > > ________________________________ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Nate Pearson > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 4:56 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] My column doesn't sort correctly in Flex 3 Beta 2 > > > > My column used to sort correctly, IE: > 28,000,000 > 16,000,000 > 6,000,000 > 4,000,000 > > Now in Beta 2 with no code changes I get: > 16,000,000 > 28,000,000 > 4,000,000 > 6,000,000 > > What gives? Is it sorting it alphabetically? If so how do I change > it back to the way it was? > > Thanks, > > Nate >
