I had seen sortCompareFunction, but I hadn't seen labelFunction. Much nicer than using an ItemRenderer. It still left me with the uncomfortable situation where I would have to write a lot of display and sort functions to get the various behavior I want.
Then I ran across your blog posting about extending DataGridColumn. That's a brilliant idea. I created a custom DataGridColumn, defined a "complexDataField" property, and set the labelFunction and sortCompareFunction to functions in my custom class that do their thing based off of the complexDataField property. The result is that I can now specify complex properties like "role.application.code" in my MXML code, and the custom DataGridColumn uses that to walk the object graph to get what I need. The MXML got a lot simpler, and I only needed one labelFunction and one sortCompareFunction that genericly works on any object. Sound like a reasonable approach? Steve --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Typically, one uses labelFunction to pull role.application.code and > display it, and provides a custom sortCompareFunction that pulls the > same and sorts it. > > >
