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I want my enum to sort numerically, not alphabeltically

Marcia G Akins — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:10:55 GMT

Hi all.

This one has to be simple. I have an enum for months of the year. I am populating a combo box iin my browse dialog from the enum. But when the browae dialog is displayed, it displays the months in alphabetical order, not the order in which they appear in the year.

What do I have to do to fix this?

TIA.

Marcia

RE: I want my enum to sort numerically, not alphabeltically

Ivan George Borges — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:10:55 GMT

You're welcome Marcia. Glad you got it working. :cool:

RE: I want my enum to sort numerically, not alphabeltically

Marcia G Akins — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:25:52 GMT

Hi Ivan.

Thanks. That is what I have already done :)

Marcia

RE: I want my enum to sort numerically, not alphabeltically

Ivan George Borges — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:19:14 GMT

The combobox won't automatically sort a BO content when populated with it, so your order_num should be fine, you just need to use a FillMethod that brings the table on whatever order you need. For the enums, I guess you could use a dummy BO to populate with your enum contents and then use the BO to populate the combobox. Or you could define your enum with numbers and text, something like "01 - January", "02 - February" and so on.

[codesnippet]Public Enum MyEnum As Integer
    <MicroFour.StrataFrame.Tools.EnumDisplayValue("01 - January", False)> _
    Item1 = 1
    <MicroFour.StrataFrame.Tools.EnumDisplayValue("02 - February", False)> _
    Item2 = 2
    <MicroFour.StrataFrame.Tools.EnumDisplayValue("03 - March", False)> _
    Item3 = 3
End Enum[/codesnippet]

RE: I want my enum to sort numerically, not alphabeltically

Marcia G Akins — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:29:23 GMT

[quote][b]Edhy Rijo (2/21/2012)[/b]Well, basically that I don't see a clear way to do this without modifying the SF Browser Dialog Source code to expose the ComboBox.Sorted property which would allow you to control the sorting at runtime.

I spend sometime with the BD trying to get to this property via any of the BD events, but could not find a way to do it. Sorry!!! :crying:[/quote]

That is really a damn nuisance. I have a field on my lookup tables called order_num and guess what it does? Very often , as in the case of months of the year, it makes no sense to sort things alphabetically. I am quite capable of making sure that the data is sorted the way that I want it.

-- Marcia

RE: I want my enum to sort numerically, not alphabeltically

Edhy Rijo — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:51:24 GMT

[quote][b]Marcia G Akins (2/21/2012)[/b][hr]So are you telling me that there is no way to accomplish this?[/quote]
Well, basically that I don't see a clear way to do this without modifying the SF Browser Dialog Source code to expose the ComboBox.Sorted property which would allow you to control the sorting at runtime.

I spend sometime with the BD trying to get to this property via any of the BD events, but could not find a way to do it. Sorry!!! :crying:

RE: I want my enum to sort numerically, not alphabeltically

Marcia G Akins — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:42:53 GMT

[quote][b]Edhy Rijo (2/21/2012)[/b][hr]Ooops, I missed the "BrowseDialog" part :crying: I believe the Combobox.Sorted property is not exposed in the BrowseDialog.[/quote]

So are you telling me that there is no way to accomplish this?

RE: I want my enum to sort numerically, not alphabeltically

Edhy Rijo — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:38:14 GMT

Hi Marcia,

[quote][b]Marcia G Akins (2/21/2012)[/b]I did not see a setting for this in the BrowseDialog.[/quote]
Ooops, I missed the "BrowseDialog" part :crying: I believe the Combobox.Sorted property is not exposed in the BrowseDialog.

RE: I want my enum to sort numerically, not alphabeltically

Marcia G Akins — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:15:02 GMT

[quote][b]Edhy Rijo (2/20/2012)[/b][hr]Hi Marcia,

[quote][b]Marcia G Akins (2/20/2012)[/b][hr]What do I have to do to fix this?[/quote]
I believe there is a Sort property in the combo that will allow you to control that issue.[/quote]

I did not see a setting for this in the BrowseDialog.

RE: I want my enum to sort numerically, not alphabeltically

Edhy Rijo — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:06:51 GMT

Hi Marcia,

[quote][b]Marcia G Akins (2/20/2012)[/b][hr]What do I have to do to fix this?[/quote]
I believe there is a Sort property in the combo that will allow you to control that issue.