note for "GNOME tips and tricks" was Re: sorting a clist?

[Dirk Luetjens <dirk luedi oche de>]

Hi,

this is worth a note on the "GNOME tips and tricks" page.

Dirk


On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, robert havoc pennington wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, jb wrote:
> > The question is in the title... how do i sort a clist on one of its
> > columns?
> > 
> 
> Gtk doesn't provide a way. You'd just sort the text and then move the rows
> accordingly. There are probably hundreds of possible ways to do it. 
> 
> Maybe:
> Get the text from all the rows and store it
> Freeze the list
> Clear the list
> Sort the text with your favorite algorithm
> Add all the rows back in order
> Thaw the list.
> 
> Freeze/thaw make this look like it all happens at once, the user won't see
> the columns disappear and come back one by one.
> 
> You could probably sort without recreating rows with swap_rows, but
> there's no good reason to I wouldn't think.
> 
> Havoc Pennington ==== http://pobox.com/~hp
> 
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