[flexcoders] Re: Datagrid height problem.
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 pa...@... 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
[flexcoders] Re: Datagrid height problem.
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 timh...@... 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
[flexcoders] Re: Datagrid height problem.
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 valdhorli...@... 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
[flexcoders] Re: Datagrid height problem.
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
[flexcoders] Re: Datagrid height problem.
My code looks like;
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Description
dataField=SCHEDULED_DESCRIPTION width=492 wordWrap=true
mx:itemRenderer
mx:Component
mx:Text width=100%
text={data.SCHEDULED_DESCRIPTION} truncateToFit=true/
/mx:Component
/mx:itemRenderer
/mx:DataGridColumn
The text that is in the DB las line 1 followed by a new line followed by line
2, etc.
It does not display the elipses.
Paul
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, turbo_vb timh...@... wrote:
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 pauls@ 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
[flexcoders] Re: Datagrid height problem.
Give it a height.
-TH
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay pa...@... wrote:
My code looks like;
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Description
dataField=SCHEDULED_DESCRIPTION width=492 wordWrap=true
mx:itemRenderer
mx:Component
mx:Text width=100%
text={data.SCHEDULED_DESCRIPTION} truncateToFit=true/
/mx:Component
/mx:itemRenderer
/mx:DataGridColumn
The text that is in the DB las line 1 followed by a new line followed by line
2, etc.
It does not display the elipses.
Paul
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, turbo_vb TimHoff@ wrote:
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 pauls@ 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
