You should probably upgrade. Those files had quite a few changes since 4.6. Monkey patching might be a pita.
Come to the dark side... we have cookies. :P -Mark -----Original Message----- From: Oleg Konovalov [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 5:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Changing sort type Oh, it came in Flex 4.11? I see. Hmm, I am still in 4.5.1 world. What should I do? :-) On Jun 16, 2014 5:05 PM, "Oleg Konovalov" <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark, > > I don't see Spark GridColumn having property sortCompareType. > But it does have sortCompareFunction. Is that a method I need to implement? > How? > > Please advise. > > TIA, > Oleg > On Jun 11, 2014 7:06 AM, "Kessler CTR Mark J" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Well on each column there are a few properties to help sorting. I would >> recommend looking into the sortCompareType[1][2]. It allows you to force >> which type of sorting is used for a column. >> >> e.g. >> column.sortCompareType = SortFieldCompareTypes.NUMERIC; >> >> >> [1] >> https://flex.apache.org/asdoc/spark/components/gridClasses/GridColumn.html#sortCompareType >> [2] >> https://flex.apache.org/asdoc/spark/collections/SortFieldCompareTypes.html >> >> -Mark >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Oleg Konovalov [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 9:37 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Changing sort type >> >> Hi, >> >> We have a Flex4 DataGrid, which is totally dynamic, so I don't know in >> advance number of columns or their types. >> It is sorted on the first column, which we know is numeric: 1,2,3,4,... >> >> But users might want to sort >> on other columns, happens often, >> and some numeric columns contain negative numbers. >> So how can I set sort type dynamically, when I find out column data type, >> after user click to sort it. >> >> TIA, >> Oleg. >> >
