Yup. That's what I did. I just typo'd the 1990. Thanks for catching that.
Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Adam Wolff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 3:17 PM To: Jeff Freedman Cc: 'Elliot Winard'; 'James Howe'; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Laszlo-user] Two Grid related questions better yet, use the seconds since 1/1/1970. That's UTC time, and the JavaScript Date object knows what to do with it. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/h tml/wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004&file=00001295.html#wp4597296 A On Jan 9, Jeff Freedman wrote: > James, > > Rather than rewriting the comparators, I simply send the number of seconds > since '1/1/1990 00:00:00' back from my data call (via stored procedure date > arithmetic) along with my timestamp. By using the sortpath attribute on the > gridcolumn, the text column then sorts by the numeric number of seconds. > > <gridcolumn width="175" sortpath="@secondsStart"> > <text datapath="@startTime" resize="true" /> > </gridcolumn> > > As to your second question, I *believe* that you need to iterate. > > Jeff > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Elliot Winard > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 11:47 AM > To: James Howe > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Laszlo-user] Two Grid related questions > > gridcolumn allows you to modify the comparators used in sorting. Check out > Antun's post from June 2002 - > http://reloaded.laszlosystems.com/developers/community/forums/showthread.php > ?threadid=1068 > > That refers to the following code - > http://www.mylaszlo.com/lps-2.1.2/antun/olympics/olympics.lzo?lzt=source > > I'll let somebody else to address your second grid question. > > HTH, > -e > > > > On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, James Howe wrote: > > > My Laszlo application makes use of a Grid to display information derived > from > > XML. On if the columns in the grid is a date/time stamp. However, the > text > > of the timestamp isn't easily sortable so when a user clicks on the Date > > column, the rows don't sort in the correct manner. Is there a way to > alter > > the sorting mechanism for a particular column to use a different > algorithm? > > For example, my XML could provide a numeric timestamp which would be > easier to > > sort, but I don't want to display that value. When the user clicked the > > column, I would want to sort based on this other value, not the value > > displayed in the column. Can this be done? Is there an example somewhere > of > > how this is done? > > > > My second Grid question involves the display of information in each of the > > columns. Is there an easy way to change the font/fontstyle for the items > > displayed in a particular row? For example, I may be displaying 4 columns > of > > information and by default the text in each column is bold. When the user > > clicks on the row, I want to change the text to non-bold. Is there an > easy > > way to change the text characteristics for all of the columns of the > selected > > row, or do I need to iterate over each of the columns, changing the text > > characteristic for each column separately? > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > James Howe > > _______________________________________________ > > Laszlo-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user > _______________________________________________ > Laszlo-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Laszlo-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user > _______________________________________________ Laszlo-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user
