Thanks Derrell! That did it. :-)
*Jonathan Wolfe*
* | Meteorologist Charleston Pilot Project *
*Charleston, WV *
*National Weather Service 304-746-0190*
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Derrell Lipman <
derrell.lip...@unwireduniverse.com> wrote:
> I think what you're looking for is custom sort methods. In the Simple
> table mode (qx.ui.table.model.Simple), the method setSortMethods is
> available:
>
> /**
> * Specify the methods to use for ascending and descending sorts of a
> * particular column.
> *
> * @param columnIndex {Integer}
> * The index of the column for which the sort methods are being
> * provided.
> *
> * @param compare {Function|Map}
> * If provided as a Function, this is the comparator function to
> sort in
> * ascending order. It takes two parameters: the two arrays of row
> data,
> * row1 and row2, being compared. It may determine which column of
> the
> * row data to sort on by accessing arguments.callee.columnIndex.
> The
> * comparator function must return 1, 0 or -1, when the column in
> row1
> * is greater than, equal to, or less than, respectively, the column
> in
> * row2.
> *
> * If this parameter is a Map, it shall have two properties:
> "ascending"
> * and "descending". The property value of each is a comparator
> * function, as described above.
> *
> * If only the "ascending" function is provided (i.e. this parameter
> is
> * a Function, not a Map), then the "descending" function is built
> * dynamically by passing the two parameters to the "ascending"
> function
> * in reversed order. <i>Use of a dynamically-built "descending"
> function
> * generates at least one extra function call for each row in the
> table,
> * and possibly many more. If the table is expected to have more than
> * about 1000 rows, you will likely want to provide a map with a
> custom
> * "descending" sort function as well as the "ascending" one.</i>
> *
> */
>
> Derrell
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Jonathan Wolfe <jonathan.wo...@noaa.gov>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm wondering if it's possible to sort a table column by another column
>> when you click on the column header. Right now, I accomplish this by
>> sorting a hidden column of date objects as the default setting for the
>> table which works, but if a user clicks on the "Ends in" column header it
>> reverts to alphanumeric sort which doesn't work too well in this case. So
>> the user would have to show the "Ends at" column and then click it to sort
>> it which isn't very intuitive. I envision a way to click on the column
>> header and override the sort function to call the other columns sort
>> method. Is this possible?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *Jonathan Wolfe*
>> * | Meteorologist Charleston Pilot Project *
>> *Charleston, WV *
>> *National Weather Service 304-746-0190 <304-746-0190>*
>>
>>
>>
>> *preview.weather.gov/edd <http://preview.weather.gov/edd> *
>>
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