Truncated datagrid column in Flex

Gerben Robijn — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:03:41 +0000

I was looking for a way to get some of my datagrid fields nicely truncated because some where to long but also because the window is completely scalable. Since I had to use itemrenders anyway I thought I just could set the truncateToFit property of a label in an itemrender. But when the datagrid is resized it does not automaticly resize the renders.

So this is what I came up with: (more…)

DataTipRenderer

Gerben Robijn — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:56:46 +0000

In charting you can set datatips to true to diplay some information about the point you have selected in a graph. To make a custom tip you have to use the dataTipRenderer property from the graph. It’s just like making a renderer for a combobox but the exception is that the data doesn’t come from the dataprovider but it comes from the graph it self. So just the x and y value. You can get them through the “chartItem” like: data.chartItem.xValue;

This is an example for a datatiprenderer taken from Kyle (more…)

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Truncated datagrid column in Flex

DataTipRenderer