Why the Flex AdvancedDataGrid sucks?!!

Well i was wondering from a while about why flex is not as programmer friendly as possible.

I am getting links that support my opionion. Here is one more:

Why I hate the AdvancedDataGrid?

AdvancedDataGrid ~ removing the sorting icons from the column header

Just add sortItemRenderer="{null}" in your AdvanceDataGrid tag and
will get rid of sorting icon(like a verticle line) in your
AdvanceDataGrid header.

How to get absolute x and y from element inside HBox?

So you want the buttons inside the HBox, but the arrows outside the HBox, and therefore need a way of converting the local x,y coordinates of your buttons to global ones?

This will give you a global point:

myButton.localToGlobal( new Point( myButton.x, myButton.y ) );

Notes:
* localToGlobal shold be invoked from the button's inmmediate parent (hbox).
* this.globalToLocal needed to translate the obtained coords for the app
* use contentToGlobal and globalToContent instead to avoid problems with padding from the hboxes

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