Do you need the user to be able to interact with each named object individually through the TreeView widget? If not, maybe you can just replace the single object name with a list of all relevant objects in your preferred sort order. You'd still get a hierarchy of groups that way. You could just "open" the list in a list field to address an individual object.
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com > wrote: > Tore Nilsen wrote: > > > Could you build the initial array with the object names as keys, add > > the layer numbers as part of the information you store about each > > element, then sort the array by layer numbers and set the array of > > the tree view widget to the sorted array? > > Ah, but arrays aren't sortable per se. > > We can sort the keys of an array, but what we're doing there is sorting a > delimited chunk. > > Associative arrays have no internal representation of order, so no matter > what I do with the keys the array itself will remain a hash table of > unpredictable order. > > I could prepend the top-level array key with a number, but this has two > drawbacks: > > 1. Not being purely numeric, it can only sort alphabetically, producing > things like this: > > 1 First item > 11 Eleventh item > 2 Second item > > 2. I'd prefer not to have the numbers visible to the user at all, since > they would be just an artifice used for sorting and have no semantic > meaning in my UI. > > If the TreeView offered options for using custom sort functions that might > work well, esp. if I could alter keys as it goes so I could remove the > numeric portion. But at the moment I don't believe it does. > > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
