Column Sorting

Maybe I missing something, but I do not see how you set your grid to sort on a particular column in either ascending or descending mode when the grid first loads?

obj.sort(index) should do that. I will add the second argument to specify the direction.

Your referring to the argument "index" as one of the columns such as "3"?

so

obj.sort(3)

?

obj.sort(3, "descending");

just added to 0.2.7

http://www.activewidgets.com/documentation/reference/active.controls.grid/sort.htm

I am reading a CSV file and when I place the following code before the write object such as:

obj.sort(0, "descending"); // sort on first column

document.write(obj);

I get ONLY (1) row of data even though I have over 30 rows! If I remove the obj.sort than all rows appear.

I have installed your latest 0.2.7

Any ideas?

Sorry, I still need to do a proper fix. Unfortunately I don't see any simple workaroud. Here is a very bad solution:

(insert sorting into table.response(data))

var defaultResponse = table.response;
table.response = function(data){
defaultResponse.call(this, data);
obj.sort(...);
obj.refresh();
}

This will refresh grid twice.

The solution you provided does the job just fine and solves the problem if you are loading data into the GRID from a CSV file! Time permitting, I am sure that this would be a nice feature to add to the base.

While it may not always be possible to control your source of data, but might I suggest that you initially create your CSV file in the desired sort order.

My company considers it bad programming practice to overtask a client-side element with something which could have first been done on the server.

Likewise, we don't send data back to the server without first doing as much client-side validation as possible.

And, yes, I am the President of my company, so that is how I develop my WBA's (Web Based Applications) :-)