In addition to what Peter says:

when you click on the column you want to, put this code

set order to ... in .....(the table or cursor)

this.parent.parent.refresh

Those two lines of code will do what you want. Of course, we are talking of a grid here, not a browse

Rafael Copquin

On 13/05/2016 13:21, Peter Cushing wrote:

On 13/05/2016 16:44, Joe Yoder wrote:

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I need to present information from several tables. I want to enable the user to click on a column header to control the order in which the records are displayed. At this point it does not need to be very polished so a simple browse with scrolling, column resizing and repositioning, with control F find will be fine.

I do this with a grid on a form. I create a cursor in the init or load and set that as the recordsource etc. then fill it with data and index on the columns you want to be able to set order to. To change the order just click on the column header and some code behind that changes the index order. Grids are definitely more work than a browse but you can do a lot more with them, like the column header click.

Peter

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On 2016-05-13 20:03, Joe Yoder wrote:

Thanks guys - the SPS package is even better than I had hoped! Now I need to learn how to work with grids!

Hmmm...I'm gonna have to check out the SPS grid...sounds even better than what I'm currently using!

I'll remind you of the grid class from the ProFox downloads section:

http://leafe.com/download/grdbase.prg

Also, I use this method call from the Header1.Click event usually, calling thisform.ToggleSortOrder2(this.parent) && where this.parent is the Column

PARAMETERS toColumn

this.cOrder = toColumn.Name && mjb 05-02-14

*** mjb 04/14/14 - took from HDIRT's frmbase togglesortorder method LOCAL loException as Exception, lnRegColor as Integer, lnSelColor as Integer, lcCmd as String, lnOldArea as Integer, liNumTags as Integer, ; lcTagName as String, lcSeekValue as String, oColumn as Column, lcCursor as String, loGrid as Grid, lcAscDesc as String LOCAL ARRAY laTags[1] lnOldArea = SELECT() && save current work area lnRegColor = RGB(0,0,0) && could make this meta-data later too lnSelColor = RGB(0,0,255) lcOrder = toColumn.tag IF this.lCreateTagOnFly AND EMPTY(lcOrder) THEN lcOrder = toColumn.Name toColumn.Tag = lcOrder ENDIF loGrid = toColumn.Parent lcCursor = loGrid.RecordSource IF !EMPTY(lcOrder) AND !EMPTY(lcCursor) THEN SELECT (lcCursor) TRY *** mjb 08/09/2012 - see if index exists and add it on-the-fly if necessary liNumTags = ATAGINFO(laTags) IF LEN(lcOrder) > 10 OR GETWORDCOUNT(lcOrder) > 1 THEN IF NOT USED("TagsCursor") THEN CREATE CURSOR TagsCursor (cCursor C(50), cOrder C(75), cTag C(10)) INDEX on cCursor + cOrder TAG MyOrder ENDIF lcSeekValue = PADR(lcCursor,50) + PADR(lcOrder,75) IF SEEK(lcSeekValue,"TagsCursor","MyOrder") THEN && grab tag name lcTagName = ALLTRIM(TagsCursor.cTag) ELSE && not found yet...create tag and add to cursor lcTagName = SYS(2015) INSERT INTO TagsCursor VALUES (lcCursor,lcOrder,lcTagName) ENDIF && SEEK(..) ELSE && ok length..use fieldname passed lcTagName = lcOrder ENDIF && LEN(lcOrder) > 10

IF ASCAN(laTags,UPPER(lcTagName)) = 0 THEN && tag doesn't exist...create it on the fly IF GETWORDCOUNT(lcOrder) = 1 THEN && just simple tag lcCmd = "INDEX ON " + lcOrder + " TAG " + lcTagName + [ ASCENDING] ELSE && expression built * set lcTagName to be LAST word in command which is tag name lcTagName = GETWORDNUM(lcOrder,GETWORDCOUNT(lcOrder)) IF INLIST(UPPER(lcTagName),'ASCENDING','DESCENDING','ASC','DESC') THEN && get word prior lcTagName = GETWORDNUM(lcOrder,GETWORDCOUNT(lcOrder)-1) ENDIF && INLIST(UPPER(lcTagName),'ASCENDING','DESCENDING','ASC','DESC') THEN && get word prior * need to update TagsCursor since redefining tag name set there earlier IF SEEK(PADR(lcCursor,50) + PADR(lcOrder,75),"TagsCursor","MyOrder") THEN REPLACE cTag WITH lcTagName IN TagsCursor ELSE SET STEP ON * shouldn't happen ENDIF lcCmd = lcOrder ENDIF SELECT (lcCursor) &lcCmd ENDIF && ASCAN(laTags,UPPER(lcTagName)) = 0

SET ORDER TO (lcTagName) IN (lcCursor) && mjb 12-18-14

*** mjb 05/17/2014 - grabbed from ToggleSortOrder as it wasn't toggling asc/desc as I expected IF ORDER() = ALLTRIM(UPPER(lcTagName)) THEN IF this.Visible THEN IF this.cAscDesc = 'ASCENDING' THEN SET ORDER TO (lcTagName) IN (lcCursor) DESCENDING this.cAscDesc = "DESCENDING" ELSE SET ORDER TO (lcTagName) IN (lcCursor) ASCENDING this.cAscDesc = "ASCENDING" ENDIF && DESCENDING() ELSE IF NOT EMPTY(this.cAscDesc) THEN lcAscDesc = ALLTRIM(this.cAscDesc) SET ORDER TO (lcTagName) IN (lcCursor) &lcAscDesc this.cAscDesc = 'ASCENDING' ENDIF && NOT EMPTY(this.cAscDesc) ENDIF && this.visible ENDIF && ORDER() = ALLTRIM(UPPER(lcTagName))

SELECT (lcCursor) LOCATE && mjb 03-01-05 send to top when changing order

FOR EACH oColumn IN loGrid.Columns oColumn.Header1.FontBold = LOWER(oColumn.Tag) = LOWER(lcOrder) IF oColumn.Header1.FontBold THEN && make backcolor use different color to show selected order column (mjb 08-16-05) oColumn.Header1.ForeColor = lnSelColor ELSE oColumn.Header1.ForeColor = lnRegColor ENDIF ENDFOR loGrid.refresh()

CATCH TO loException WHEN loException.ErrorNo = 1683 && no index tag with this name...ignore IF _vfp.StartMode = 0 THEN MESSAGEBOX(loException.Message,16,"Problem") ENDIF

CATCH TO loException MESSAGEBOX(loException.Message,16,"Problem") SET STEP ON ENDTRY ENDIF && !EMPTY(lcOrder) SELECT (lnOldArea) && restore previous work area

There's a couple form props you'll see referenced above which are self-explanatory. This code basically allows me to create sorted columns on the fly.

hth, --Mike

On 2016-05-13 15:25, rafael copquin wrote:

In addition to what Peter says:

when you click on the column you want to, put this code

set order to ... in .....(the table or cursor)

this.parent.parent.refresh

Those two lines of code will do what you want. Of course, we are talking of a grid here, not a browse

Rafael Copquin

On 13/05/2016 13:21, Peter Cushing wrote:

...

On 13/05/2016 16:44, Joe Yoder wrote:

...

I need to present information from several tables. I want to enable the user to click on a column header to control the order in which the records are displayed. At this point it does not need to be very polished so a simple browse with scrolling, column resizing and repositioning, with control F find will be fine.

I do this with a grid on a form. I create a cursor in the init or load and set that as the recordsource etc. then fill it with data and index on the columns you want to be able to set order to. To change the order just click on the column header and some code behind that changes the index order. Grids are definitely more work than a browse but you can do a lot more with them, like the column header click.

Peter

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