Sort contents of Flex ComboBox

Question

I need to be able to sort the items of a combobox so they will be in alphabetical order. how would I do this?

Answer 1

Sort the array or ArrayCollection that you're using as the dataprovider:

http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/sorting-an-arraycollection-using-the-sortfield-and-sort-classes/

or

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/Array.html#sort()

Answer 2

Sort dataProvider object for your ComboBox.

Sorting methods varies depending what dataProvider data structure is.

For Array you can use sort() or sortOn() methods. For ArrayCollection check out Sort and SortField classes. I've found example here.