Re: How to sort CListCtrl without changing the per-item data?
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com> wrote in message
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David,
If you were to use a virtual CListCtrl you could store an "original index"
in your external array that could be used to go back to that sort order.
However, that said, I haven't seen many applications that have this
functionality since users can typically just resort any way they want and
most applications have a default order that they use for sorting which is
typically based on one of the columns (like Filename for example).
I thought of doing that, but no matter where the actual item data was
stored, in the listctrl, or in the array, it required keeping two data
collections in sync. So it really doesn't matter at that point.
The list holds stock fund information. User can sort by stock symbol,
current price, time of last trade, etc. by clicking column headers. As
well, they can switch to unsorted order and move their most watched stocks
to the top of the list. That's why it's important to have unsorted order.
Thanks,
David
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