Combobox.sortitemsby() - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-COMPONENTS LANGUAGE Reference

Description
Method; sorts the items in the combo box according to the specified compare function or
according to the specified sort options.
Example
This example sorts according to uppercase labels. The items and are passed to the function
a b
and contain and fields:
label data
myComboBox.sortItems(upperCaseFunc);
function upperCaseFunc(a,b){
return a.label.toUpperCase() > b.label.toUpperCase();
}
The following example uses the function defined above, along with the
upperCaseFunc()
parameter to sort the elements of a ComboBox instance named :
optionsFlag myComboBox
myComboBox.addItem("Mercury");
myComboBox.addItem("Venus");
myComboBox.addItem("Earth");
myComboBox.addItem("planet");
myComboBox.sortItems(upperCaseFunc, Array.DESCENDING);
// The resulting sort order of myComboBox will be:
// Venus
// planet
// Mercury
// Earth

ComboBox.sortItemsBy()

Availability
Flash Player 7.
Edition
Flash MX Professional 2004.
Usage
comboBoxInstance.sortItemsBy(fieldName, order [optionsFlag])
Parameters
A string that specifies the name of the field to use for sorting. This value is
fieldName
usually or .
"label" "data"
A string that specifies whether to sort the items in ascending order ( ) or
order "ASC"
descending order ( ).
"DESC"
202 ComboBox component