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Sort by SlectBox Associated string value ?

Hello, I was wondering if there was a way to sort a selectbox column, not by the value of the select box, but by the content of the selectbox in the dhtmlXGrid ? In our case we have an Number associated to a String value loaded via a dataprocessor. Currently the sorting is done with the Numbe and not the String Value. So I looked at the custom sorting routines but same problem I can only acces the Number and not the String Associated.

Any insight woud be deeply Apreciated.

Nicolas Darques
R&D VFX
Eclair PARIS

By default all columns sorted by value, but workaround for select boxes is possible.

You can use custom sorting in next way

mygrid2.setColSorting("str,str,str,str,str,custom_1,str,str");

   function custom_1(a,b,ord,a_id,b_id){
      a=mygrid2.cells(a_id,5).getText();
      b=mygrid2.cells(b_id,5).getText();
      return ord=="asc"?(a>b?1:-1):(a>b?-1:1);
      }

here 5 - index of column with selectboxes
if necessary - please contact us directly at support@dhtmlx.com - I will send you ready sample