Advanced Data Grid Sorting / Grouping Collection

Question

Ok, basically here's the issue..
I have an advanced data grid with a tree view. It goes two
levels deep
so:
Report Type
|-------------------- Company
|--------------------------------------- Report 1
|--------------------------------------- Report 2
|--------------------------------------- Report 3
|-------------------- Company 2
|--------------------------------------- Report 1
|--------------------------------------- Report 2
|--------------------------------------- Report 3
Report Type 2
|-------------------- Company
|--------------------------------------- Report 1
|--------------------------------------- Report 2
|--------------------------------------- Report 3
|-------------------- Company 2
|--------------------------------------- Report 1
|--------------------------------------- Report 2
|--------------------------------------- Report 3
etc..
Report and Company are Nodes (folders) and are being sorted
alphabetically by default.
The individual reports (Report 1,2,3, etc..) are not being
sorted in any way that I can figure out. I need to sort them by
date, but no matter what I've tried I can't get it to work.
I tried a SortCompareFunction on the advancedDataGridColumn
that displays each report, and it works *IF* I click the header...
but if I dispatch the header_release event via AS3, nothing
happens.
I even set up a test:
dg.addEventListener(AdvancedDataGridEvent.HEADER_RELEASE,heard);
dg.dispatchEvent(
new AdvancedDataGridEvent
AdvancedDataGridEvent.HEADER_RELEASE,
false,
true,
0, // The zero-based index of the column to sort in the
DataGrid object's columns array.
null,
0,
null,
null,
0
function heard(e:Event) {
trace("I HEAR IT!");
trace(e.type);
I set that up on a button so I can dispatch the event with a
click. Every time I click the button, the header release event
listener goes off, but the actual advanceddatagrid remains
unchanged until I actually click on it's header..
Any help would be *GREATLY* appreciated... I've been stuck on
this problem for two days now :(

Answer 1

"AnakinJay" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Ok, basically here's the issue..
>
> I have an advanced data grid with a tree view. It goes
two levels deep
> so:
> Report Type
> |-------------------- Company
> |--------------------------------------- Report 1
> |--------------------------------------- Report 2
> |--------------------------------------- Report 3
> |-------------------- Company 2
> |--------------------------------------- Report 1
> |--------------------------------------- Report 2
> |--------------------------------------- Report 3
>
> Report Type 2
> |-------------------- Company
> |--------------------------------------- Report 1
> |--------------------------------------- Report 2
> |--------------------------------------- Report 3
> |-------------------- Company 2
> |--------------------------------------- Report 1
> |--------------------------------------- Report 2
> |--------------------------------------- Report 3
> etc..
>
> Report and Company are Nodes (folders) and are being
sorted alphabetically
> by
> default.
> The individual reports (Report 1,2,3, etc..) are not
being sorted in any
> way
> that I can figure out. I need to sort them by date, but
no matter what
> I've
> tried I can't get it to work.
>
> I tried a SortCompareFunction on the
advancedDataGridColumn that displays
> each
> report, and it works *IF* I click the header... but if I
dispatch the
> header_release event via AS3, nothing happens.
>
> I even set up a test:
>
dg.addEventListener(AdvancedDataGridEvent.HEADER_RELEASE,heard);
>
> dg.dispatchEvent(
>
> new AdvancedDataGridEvent
> (
> AdvancedDataGridEvent.HEADER_RELEASE,
> false,
> true,
> 0, // The zero-based index of the column to sort in the
DataGrid object's
> columns array.
> null,
> 0,
> null,
> null,
> 0
> )
>
> );
>
> function heard(e:Event) {
>
> trace("I HEAR IT!");
> trace(e.type);
>
> }
>
>
> I set that up on a button so I can dispatch the event
with a click. Every
> time I click the button, the header release event
listener goes off, but
> the
> actual advanceddatagrid remains unchanged until I
actually click on it's
> header..
>
> Any help would be *GREATLY* appreciated... I've been
stuck on this problem
> for
> two days now :(
Check the compareFunctions here
http://flexdiary.blogspot.com/2008/09/groupingcollection-example-featuring.html