Features

Features Comparison

Feature	SDK MX DataGrid	SDK MX Advanced DataGrid	SDK Spark DataGrid (as of 4.5)	Flexicious DataGrid	Flexicious Advanced DataGrid	Flexicious Spark DataGrid	Flexicious Ultimate Datagrid
Basic DataGrid Features : Ability to organize information as rows and columns, with locked headers, Ability to Customize the appearance Rows and Columns, User Interactive, Draggable, Resizable, Sortable and Editable Columns, Keyboard Navigation and Accesibility Support.	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Inline Filtering, with numerous built in Filter Controls, and extensible architecture to define your own.	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
Server and Client Paging, with a fully Customizable Pager UI.	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
Summary Footers, with fine tuned control over Formula, Precision, Formatting, Placement and Rendering of Footers.	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
Print and Live Print Preview, with ability to control Page Size, Orientation, Columns To Print, Page/Report Headers and Footers.	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
Export to PDF, Ability to Export the Print output to any ActionScript PDF library, including Alive PDF	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
Ability to create Customizable Reports with your own Headers/Footers.	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
Ability to Export to Excel, Word, Text, XML and other formats. Ability to plug in your own Exporters	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
Preference Persistence (Ability for your end users to save viewing preferences, like column order, visibility, widths, filter criteria, print settings etc.)	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
Suppport for Hierarchical Data with Smooth Scrolling and Nested Tree Grids	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
Ability to define Fully Lazy Loaded, Partially Lazy Loaded and Initial Loaded Flat as well as Hierarchical Data Grids.	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
Built in Change Tracking (All Edits/Additions/Deletions) are accesible via an easy to use API.	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
Support for Row Span and Column Span.	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
Support for Virtual Scroll of Hierarchical Data.	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
A vast number of Business Scenarios supported out of the box:
Fully Configurable Drag and Drop	✓	✓	✗	✓	✓	✗	✓
Multi Column Sort	✗	✓	✗	✗	✓	✗	✓
Multi Level, Grouped Column Headers	✗	✓	✗	✗	✓	✗	✓ ✓ *Built in Expand/Collapse
Single Cell, Single Row, Multiple Cell, Multiple Row Selection Modes.	✗	✓	✓	✗	✓	✓	✓
Display of Homogenous Hierarchical Data (Single Set Of Columns)	✗	✓	✗	✗	✓	✗	✓
CheckBox Selection of data, with Tri State CheckBox Header	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
Customizable Loading Animation	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
Smooth Scrolling	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗	✓	✓
Display of Heterogeneous Hierarchical Data (Multiple Sets Of Columns)	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
Ability to define paging, filtering and summary footers at each hierarchical level	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
Left and Right Locked columns	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓ ✓ *Right & Left Locked Columns
Built in Cascading and Bubbling of checkbox/row selection for hierarchical data	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
Built in Drill Down/Drill Up/Drill To of Hierarchical data	✗	✓	✗	✗	✓	✗	✓ ✓ *Built in UI, Drill To Any Level
Toolbar action icons, with ability to define custom actions	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
Built in Ability to define initial sort values at any level	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
Built in Ability to show custom ToolTip with interactive content on hover over	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
Built in Ability to define custom logic that controls row selection, enabled, background, and border.	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
Built in Ability to Auto Adjust height based on rows, as well as prevent multiple scrollbars at hierarchical levels.	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
Programatic control over which cells are editable, which rows are selectable, background, border and text colors of each cell.	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
Read write nested properties of complex objects	✓	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Context menu based copying of data rows	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
Ability to declaratively define Hand Cursors, Underline, truncateToFit, wordWrap on the columns	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
Ability to define various column width modes, like fitToContent, Percentage and Fixed, Automatic column width adjustment on basis of data	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓