> On 05/24/2011 02:37 PM, Matti wrote: > > Hi Kevin, > > > > this sorting problem is (at least to me) still unsolved. > > I gave up and used a lousy workaround, reading the 2-dim array into a > > 1-dim string array like "field1/field2", then sorting this and reading > > the fields backward again. > > See Examples/Image/Lighttable, the sorting subs. > > Works ok with a few hundred pictures (tested up to 1200), but for your > > amount of data it sure will be not practicable. > > > > If somebody knows a solution, I would be glad, too. > > Sweet Jesus, this is the sort of thing that makes me want to blow up my > house and run down the street naked looking for someone's ass to kick. > Now that that's said, what's up with this (attachment)? > > I finally got around to trying to sort graphical objects by their y > coordinate so they'd overlap properly, but it seems even with extensive > jerry-rigging I still need to implement more of it. I think I need to > offset the whole batch of numbers before I sort so they're either > positive or negative, then offset them back after sorting to get the > original values. Hacking is all good and well, but for a language as > advanced and robust as gb there should be a better option. I know I'm > looking a gift horse in the mouth by complaining, but sometimes when my > hair catches fire I have to say something about it. > > Sorry. Now to hack together a solution so I can see if my new rendering > method works. :)
At the moment, the only clean way to sort objects through multiple fields is doing what I told in a previous mail: implementing the _compare() method. Once Gambas knows how to compare two objects with the _compare() method, it can sort them. Regards, -- Benoît Minisini ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
