Flex: selectable text in DataGridColumn?

Question

How do I make text selectable (so I can copy) in a DataGridColumn?

Answer 1

Here is an even better way to do it. Just sub-class the default DataGridItemRenderer and set the selectable flag to true.

package com.renderers
{
    import mx.controls.dataGridClasses.DataGridItemRenderer;

    public class SelectableDataGridItemRenderer extends DataGridItemRenderer
    {
        public function SelectableDataGridItemRenderer()
        {
            super();
            this.selectable = true;
        }
    }
}

In your mxml you'd then do something like this:

<mx:DataGridColumn dataField="name" headerText="Name" itemRenderer="com.renderers.SelectableDataGridItemRenderer"/>