Reverse sort order for comboboxes?

[Spotnick2]

Is there an easy way to sort in REVERSE order a Combo Box?


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Nicolas LeBlanc
Software Engineer
Ordiplan Inc.

[Lothar Haensler]

AFAIK there is no way to change the sort order for a standard list or combobox.
If you are as lazy as I am, and don't want to write the code for sorting, you can use a hidden Listview and add your items to the listview. The listview supports sorting in ascending or descending order.
After sorting the listview you could then populate the combobox (Sorted=False) from the listview.
It's definitely less code then implementing a sort algorithm.

[Ravi Kiran]

Quite often i do this, specially to sort strings. Use a hidden listbox...
BTW, listbox could be less resource mongering than a LV, me thinks.. unless ofcourse the no.of items are going to run out of integer bounds.
To sort in reverse order, copy the items bottom up.
For i = List.Listcount-1 to 0 step -1

RK

[Spotnick2]

Yes, this is what I did. Actually there is a better way by "switching" them (takes 1/2 of the time), but I was wondering about a "natural" way, inside VB itself..

Since there isn't I did my own routine.


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Nicolas LeBlanc
Software Engineer
Ordiplan Inc.