What's My Title Today?

I was building an AdvancedDataGrid today, and the 2nd header was supposed to be a date. Easy enough right? Not so much... I put it as a String, as a Date, as a formatted Date... and every time the last character was begging cut off. No reason why. I tried putting the Date in a String variable... still cut the last character off... but ONLY when it was in the format 5/11/09 or similar... any other string worked fine. I eventually had to use the headerRenderer... all the renderer (extends Text) does is override the updateDisplayList with this.text = data.headerText.toString(); . Works like a charm. What a messed up bug...

I'm working with another advanced data grid. The grid has a lot of columns and fitting it on one screen without a horizontal scroll is proving challenging. Here are a couple properties regarding headers that I found helpful: sortExpertMode - Setting this property to true removes that little vertical bar next to your header text. That frees up some horizontal space. headerWordWrap - Setting this property to true allows multi-line headers. You will need to set the Column width to force the text to wrap, and you'll probably need to set the header height since the default isn't tall enough to fit two lines of text. folderClosedIcon & folderOpenIcon - Setting these properties to {null} will remove the little folder icon next to the grouped item. You can also use these properties to show a custom icon.