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PowerBuilder – Simple datawindow column sort by click

Posted on Thursday, July 1st, 2010 at 8:20 pm in

This sample is for sorting the rows in a grid datawindow ascending or descending based on the user clicking the column header. It only allows for a single column sort at a time.

//Clicked event of datawindow
// You need an instance variable (string is_sort_column)
// This script first checks to see if we've clicked in the header area or
// the detail area.  If we've clicked in the header area, it tries to sort
// the datawindow on the column header we've clicked on.  

Integer ll_tab_pos
String ls_object_at_pointer
String ls_object_type
String ls_sort_format, ls_sort_data,ls_sort_fld_type
String ls_editstyle
String ls_band_at_pointer

IF row > 0 THEN
  // do something else
ELSE
  // If we've clicked in the header band, get the name of the object we've
  // clicked on and sort on its related column.  This functionality is
  // dependent on the text object name (the column label) having the same 
  // name as the column name with an additional "_t".  
  // For example, the label for the "empid" column would be "empid_t".

  ls_band_at_pointer = This.GetBandAtPointer()
  ll_tab_pos = Pos(ls_band_at_pointer, "	", 1)
  ls_band_at_pointer = Trim(Left(ls_band_at_pointer, ll_tab_pos - 1))
  IF ls_band_at_pointer = "header" THEN
	ls_object_at_pointer = This.GetObjectAtPointer()
	IF ls_object_at_pointer <> "" THEN
      ll_tab_pos = Pos(ls_object_at_pointer, "	", 1)
      ls_object_at_pointer = Trim(Left(ls_object_at_pointer, ll_tab_pos - 1))
      ls_object_type = This.Describe(ls_object_at_pointer + ".Type")
      IF ls_object_type = "text" THEN
         // if second time to click this column, sort descending
         IF is_sort_column = ls_object_at_pointer THEN
           is_sort_column = ""
           ls_sort_data = Left(ls_object_at_pointer, Len(ls_object_at_pointer) - 2)
           ls_sort_fld_type = This.Describe(ls_sort_data+ ".Coltype")
           CHOOSE CASE lower(ls_sort_fld_type)
             CASE 'date','datetime'
               ls_sort_format =  ls_sort_data + " D"
             CASE ELSE
               ls_editstyle = this.Describe(ls_sort_data + ".Edit.Style")
               CHOOSE CASE lower(ls_editstyle)
                 CASE 'edit', '!', 'editmask', 'checkbox'
                   ls_sort_format = ls_sort_data + " D"
                 CASE ELSE
                   ls_sort_format = "LookUpDisplay(" + ls_sort_data + ")" + " D"
               END CHOOSE
           END CHOOSE
         ELSE
           is_sort_column = ls_object_at_pointer
           ls_sort_data = Left(ls_object_at_pointer, Len(ls_object_at_pointer) - 2)
           ls_sort_fld_type = This.Describe(ls_sort_data+ ".Coltype")
           CHOOSE CASE lower(ls_sort_fld_type)
             CASE 'date','datetime'
               ls_sort_format =  ls_sort_data + " A"
             CASE ELSE
               ls_editstyle = this.Describe(ls_sort_data + ".Edit.Style")
               CHOOSE CASE lower(ls_editstyle)
                 CASE 'edit', '!', 'editmask', 'checkbox'
                   ls_sort_format = ls_sort_data + " A"
                 CASE ELSE
                   ls_sort_format = "LookUpDisplay(" + ls_sort_data + ")" + " A"
               END CHOOSE
            END CHOOSE
          END IF
          IF This.SetSort(ls_sort_format) = 1 THEN
             SetPointer(HourGlass!)
             This.Sort()
          END IF
      END IF
	END IF // IF ls_object_at_pointer <> "" THEN
  END IF // IF ls_band_at_pointer = "header" THEN
END IF
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