Hi!

Quite messy. There are no other simple way but just use the special character at fromt of the field caption. More complex way is to use some custom control put over the grid header. However, it requires a lot of complex programming to position it corrcetly and refresh it correctly (grid tends to make its headers always on top without aware that some other controls cover it, so the arrow is hidden in certain cases). I id managed to make this, the code was improved over 3 years and now works ok and all issues are workarounded with support from the application framework. If you're interested, I can describe more. In particular, development of such thing will require following things:
- put a grid into the container to track its focus leaving, or refresh grid sorting indicator in each control that receives focus (we used second approach - we have a framework, forst is good only when you have no existing grids in the application or build a new application)
- remove index used for sorting for duration of the transaction
- make a special header class to catch certain events and refresh sorting arrow properly to the changes of the column widths/height
- make a grid class with plenty of events catching and functionality to support sorting and arrow indicator
- make arrow indicator (a separate story).

If you want, I can even send you a screenshot of how sorting arrow looks like in our application.

HTH.

>in a grid control, is there anyway to add little arrows in the header to indicate which field is sorted in what order?
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>thanks
>- jer