RE: [DUG]: sorting files

[Jeremy Coulter]

Ok, kinda what I had thought....will take a look. Thanks Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nello Sestini Sent: 09 February, 2001 9:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: sorting files   What II am really looking for, is what kind of list I should use. I am figuring I will need to do something like list.addobject('blah',pointer(datenumber)) But what list can I use or would be best to use that i can sort by the datanumber ? (other than a TListview)   I won't claim either of these to be the BEST way, but they will work:   1.  create a sorted stringlist and use the date formatted     as either an integer with fixed number of digits (leading 0s)     or as YYYYMMDD.    Put pointers (or whatever) as the list     objects to reference the associated directory entry.    Then     call TStringlist.Sort method on the list.   2.  create a stringlist (again with the list objects pointing to the     directory entries wherever you have them) and use the     TStringlist.CustomSort method to sort it.    You'll have to     write an override TStringlistSortCompare function to do the     compares (it can just compare the dates).   hope this helps   -ns