Steven, I thought I would pass on something that has been helpful for me in regards to sorting.
Back on September 1, 2016 a gentleman by the name of Flury Oliver posted a link to a 4D shell he calls the data browser. Here is the link to his post (not sure if I can post a link). http://4d.1045681.n5.nabble.com/4D-Shell-or-not-so-much-td5747143.html#a5747180 I checked his link to his shell and it appears to still work. As a part of his shell he included a set of utility routines in a component called FSUty.4dbase. The utility routines include two methods called UtyLB_SaveUserSort and UtyLB_SetUserSort. The Save User Sort method is placed in a listbox "on after sort" event and the Set User Sort method is placed anywhere you want to update/resort the listbox. I've created a shell of my own in which I provide many simple ways to modify a listbox selection and I needed a simple way to maintain the sort order. This has worked wonderfully with one exception... it doesn't handle calculated column sorts. The methods are pretty short so I could post them here but not sure if that would be appropriate. Also, not sure if this will help you but I thought I would pass it on. fyi... Just a note on the data browser shell. I've found it to be a wonderful resource not just because of some excellent sample code that is included but I've learned a lot of programing techniques from how Mr Oliver does his programing. Much of it is still over my head (his use of language objects for example) but I am very grateful for his sharing this with the 4D community. -- View this message in context: http://4d.1045681.n5.nabble.com/Permanently-Sort-Data-tp5750242p5750350.html Sent from the 4D Tech mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
