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Hi Bruce,
Thanks for the reply. I will have to digest this a bit. Do you place all the code in a class or in the header click event?
Thanks
>>What would be a good approch to create a grid that will allow the user to click on the header and resort the grid by that column?
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>>Would you create an index on the fly?
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>>Would you not allow a sort on fields like logical?
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>Here's what we've done, after wrangling with it awhile. Most of grids use a cursor source (but view/table is somewhat similar, so we:
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>1) make cursors writeable with USE DBF() AGAIN so can index more than once
>2) in each column's Moved & Resize events, a flag is set
>3) in each header's Click, the flag is checked to make sure the column is not being moved or resized (if they are you don't want a sort).
>4) in each header's Click, if flag okay, check to see if index exists
>5) if not create one - Ascending for chars, Descending for numeric (use judgement on these)
>6) if index exists, set order to it
>7) if last order on a column was ascending switch it to descending on current Click, and vice versa - just like Windows Explorer works.
>8) Allow sorts on virtually all fields - even logical a user may wish to sort.
>9) You may wish to "mark" the current sort order header with color, symbol, etc., though it's not necessary...
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>Net result is a single header click gets a sort, another single click reverses order. Just like Windows Explorer, as I mentioned, it's nice to keep things standard.
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>Views & tables are similar, except that you may pre-index them instead, since views require buffering set to row (3) to index, and tables open shared...well you can either pre-index or INDEX...OF C:\tempdir...
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