horzintal scroll bars in data grid

[womblies]

hi

i'm taking in info from a database by flash remoting and then dispalying it in a datagrid component(devnet one)

my problem is that i don't know how many columns that i have to display(could be from 1 to 50)but i have to limit the size of the grid on the movie. i can't seem to get horzintal scroll bar to work in the grid, so that my columns can be a certain width and the user can scroll over to see the rest of the info

cheers

 

[billwatson]

never used the macromedia datagrid

however i can recommend this one which is free and comes with horizontal scroll buit in

http://www.flashcomponents.net/component.cfm?nav=2&id=135

ive used this myself. its quick, powerful, has lots of features you only discover with familiarity, and is easy to use.

you might want to consider changing components.

 

[womblies]

i have had a look at that component as well and i have a problem with that as well.

when i get in the info from flash remoting and try to load the component with the result it does nothing

function flash_Result(result){
List = result;
grid.setRecordSet(List);
}

to fill the grid i had to create a new recordset and polullate the grid that way

rc = new RecordSet(["User", "Firstname", "Surname", "Password", "Email"]);
i=0;
for (object in List){
rc.addItem({User:List.euscd, Firstname:List.eusfn, Surname:List.eussn, Password:List.euspw, Email:List.eusem});
i++;
}
grid.setRecordSet(rc);

this work work fine if the column names stayed the same but they will be changing depending on what remoting returns.

is there anyway that i can the grid filled without having to ceate a new record set with set column names

 

[billwatson]

how is your data coming in...i mean how is it structured...cant you just use the headers to create the record set?....have a look in the debugger and see if headers are being passed

 

[womblies]

function flash_Result(result){
List = result;
}
is how i get result back from flash remoting

and in the debugger shows in this format
List
-(0)
-eusfn " "
-eusln " "
-(1)
-eusfn " "
-eusln " "
etc.
or to reference it
List(0).eusfn

eusfn, eusln is what i want to be the column header in the datagrid as that is the column header used in the database