Hi folks,

I have a page with a WODisplayGroup that users can sort on the basis of 
three separate individual keys.  However, initial tests suggest that 
people don't really find the default images of a WOSortOrder component 
particularly intuitive.  (I'm not sure why, but the displayKey tooltip 
doesn't even display anything for me).

So I want to display some additional indication next to whichever 
WOSortOrder was the last they clicked on. The DG doesn't seem to know 
which WOSortOrder was used (asking it for its sortOrderings() seems to 
show the previous sortOrder, not that which is currently in effect).  From 
my reading today it seems that it should be possible for the parent 
component to get hold of the values in the subcomponent.  But a 
WOSortOrder does not seem to hold any information about it's current 
state.  I then had a look at ERXSortOrder and that does have information 
that could be useful if I could get at it (it has fields SortedAscending, 
SortedDescending, and Unsorted).  But I don't know how to get that 
information from the sub-component.

I feel I need to learn a lot more about bindings, synchronizing values, 
parent-child communication, and the API editor.  Just about the only 
resource I've been able to find on this, is in Chuck and Sacha's book. But 
I still can't figure things out.

Am I going about this the wrong way? 

Regards,

Bernard Devlin

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