Re: Sorting GtkListStore date column

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Sunday 12 March 2006 09:11, Guy Rouillier wrote:
> I'm fairly new to GTK programming, and I'm helping out on an open source
> GTK-based project (gcvs, part of the cvsgui project.)  We have a
> GtkListStore with a column containing date.  The column is specified as
> G_TYPE_STRING.  When sorted, it does an alphanumeric sort, so in English
> it puts all the Fridays together first, followed by all the Mondays,
> Saturdays, Sundays, etc.
>
> Obviously, I want to sort this in date sequence.  How do I accomplish
> this?  I searched the archives before posting and couldn't find anything
> applicable.  Thanks.

You can sort on a hidden column in the list store (that is, one not displayed 
in a tree view) which has, say, this format:  YYYYMMDDSS

Chris