DataGrid - selecting, highlighting, navigating to a row

(I thank you all for your help, this is the third post, I'm desparate for a
solution...)


In Flash MX 2004

I would like to have a row selected after the DataGrid has been populated.
Much like a list box <select> in html, I would like to make one row
"selected". It must be navigated to and highlighted to visually indicate the
selection.

However, the focusedCell property does not work when dg.editable=false

So, I set the dg.editable=true, set the focusedCell to the appropriate row
and cell then set the dg.editable=false. But this left the chosen cell in an
editable (textbox) state that you would have to click out of in order to see
all the contents of that cell. Ugly.

With the fine suggestion of DMennenoh, I used the .selectedIndex property to
choose the selected row, but, although the item is in fact selected, the
datagrid does not navigate to the selected field. It stays on the first row.
You must scroll through the list to see the selected row.

Also, dan mode suggested dg.setSelected(0) where I supplied the appropriate
index, but the navigate does not happen.

Is there a way to progarmmatically choose and navigate to a row in a
DataGrid without this effect?


At this point, I will even accept a way to programmatically "hit enter" to
allow the focusedCell function to end the edit mode on the cell.


Julian