[FLEX-19464] Allow detection of CTRL and SHIFT key presses on itemclicks and itemdoubleclicks of rows in DataGrid

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Later
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK Previous
• Component/s: Events
• Environment: Language Found: English
• Assignee: Adobe JIRA
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 26/May/09 08:39
• Updated: 15/Apr/11 15:08
• Resolved: 03/Aug/09 22:21

Description

Currently (in Flex 3.3), the ListEvent broadcast on clicking a DataGrid row does not wrap or extend a MouseEvent, which contains the boolean flags for the SHIFT and CTRL keys, which means that you cannot directly detect if the SHIFT or CTRL keys were pressed when itemclicking or itemdouble-clicking a DataGrid row. An ugly workaround for this is to override the click event handlers on the DataGrid and create a new ListEvent type that wraps ListEvent but provides these two boolean properties, then broadcast this new event (and implement the clone() function) instead of the standard ListEvent.