Alex, thanks for the reply. I tried that, but had problems figuring out how to put the "name" in. I may not have explained very well.
Let's say I have the following datagrid with an id="books": +-------------+----------+-------+------------+ | Condition | Course | Price | Bookname | +-------------+----------+-------+------------+ | In Plastic | EMB 101 | 100 | Embryology | | Well-read | EMB 102 | 75 | Embryology | | In Plastic | Anat 101 | 100 | Anatomy | | In Plastic | Anat 101 | 100 | Anatomy | | Highlighted | Anat 102 | 25 | Anatomy | | Well-read | Surg 101 | OBO | Surgery | +-------------+----------+-------+------------+ The user can click in any cell in any row or column. If the user clicks in row2, column3, I can use rowIndex and columnIndex to get 2 and 3. I could get the data by doing books[2].Bookname, but how do I know that Bookname is the heading for column 3? I could do a lookup that says if columnIndex==3, then fieldname=Bookname, but how do I use a string variable in the call? I know I can do books[rowIndex].Bookname to get the data, but how do I use a variable for the column name? Or do I just know that because I'm hardcoding in the field names for the columns in the DataGridColumn? If I just let the DataGrid component build the columns, then the columns are dependent on the order of the fields in the underlying database format and if I ever have to change that format, then I'd have to update all of this. I'd like something a little more portable. Did I explain that ok? Thanks for your help! It really is appreciated! Bob From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Harui Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 1:59 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] value of clicked/focused cell in a datagrid acMyStuff[i] is the data object in the dataprovider, but normally those things are objects with fields and not another array. Your datagridcolumns use .datafield to pull the field. So it would be something like acMyStuff[1].name ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramsey, Robert L Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 10:42 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] value of clicked/focused cell in a datagrid Ok, I am definitely being a real idiot here. All I want to do is find out the value of cell that a user has clicked on, tabbed into, or entered into. I can get the row number and column number, but I can't find the syntax to get the data out of the arraycollection. For other languages, I'd just do something like val = acMyStuff[1][4] to get the data from the multidimensional array. Any ideas? Thanks. Bob
