We use a different technique here. We have a custom gridcolumn for our datagrids. One of the added properties is a boolean value that states weather the column has numeric data.
Then override some of the sorting methods and use the SortFields own numeric property [1]. Works pretty good. [1] http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/spark/collections/SortField.html#numeric -Mark -----Original Message----- From: Ash1703 [mailto:ashish.ya...@firmwisegroup.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 6:52 AM To: users@flex.apache.org Subject: RE: Data type to convert and store a srting into decimal/float value Well. Its kind of not working for me then... :( I also have an itemrenderer working on the column...does it has to do something? I am not able to crack it out :( -- View this message in context: http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/Data-type-to-convert-and-store-a-srting-into-decimal-float-value-tp5202p5214.html Sent from the Apache Flex Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.