Sort Items Alphabetically in List Control

Question

Hi,
  I have a code snippet as in the following: (input is a dynamically generated array based on users selection)
  //Create a new List element
                      list1 = new List();              
                      var sort:Sort = new Sort();
                      sort.fields = [new SortField(null,true)];
                      input.sort = sort;  # 1168: Illegal assignment to function sort.
                      input.refresh();
                      list1.dataProvider = input;    
                      list1.setStyle("color","blue");     
                      list1.setStyle("borderStyle","none");
                      list1.labelField = "name";
                      list1.allowMultipleSelection = false;
                      list1.doubleClickEnabled = true;         
                      list1.addEventListener("change",updateNameSelected2); //Add Event Listener on single Click
                      list1.addEventListener("doubleClick",appointmentList2); //Add Event Listener on DoubleClick
  I don't think this seems to be legal, because I keep getting the error #1168 at the line where I marked input.sort= sort;
  I have a question here, when the list in Flex is generated, does it always show according to how the xml output is printed out, or does it generate the results printing alphabetically by default? If the former, why would I get the #1168 error, and how could I fix it?
Thanks in advance.
Alice

Answer 1

That's the expected behavior of the SortField, I don't think that 
using mix content you could accomplish what you want, remember the 
sorting order symbols, numbers, uppercase, lowercase.
Sincerely,
Michael
El 27/04/2009, a las 9:47, alice_data <[email protected]> escribió:
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Hi, Mike:
>
  This is working so much better. But, I have one question, If I 
have something  like this, then the results get screwed up:
>
  abc-1m
  abc-101m
  abc-121m
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  The output of the ordering:
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  abc-101m
  abc-121m
  abc-1m
>
  Is this what the ordering is supposed to do? Or, is there 
something else I have done wrong here by applying your code 
directly? Here is the code:
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    list1 = new List();  //Create a new List element
                      var col:ICollectionView = new 
ArrayCollection(input);
                      var sort:Sort = new Sort();
                      sort.fields = ;
                      col.sort= sort;
                      col.refresh();
                      list1.dataProvider = col;
                      list1.setStyle("color","blue");
                      list1.setStyle("borderStyle","none");
                      list1.labelField = "name";
                      list1.allowMultipleSelection = false;
                      list1.doubleClickEnabled = true;
                      list1.width = 200;
                      list1.height = 295;
list1.addEventListener("change",updateNameSelected2); //Add Event 
Listener on single Click
list1.addEventListener("doubleClick",appointmentList2); //Add Event 
Listener on DoubleClick
>
Thanks for your help.
>
Alice
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