Custom sort order

Hi Rex,

The default sort comparer looks at the IShellObject.SortOrder property as its first comparison.  If you set that to -1 for the one object you want at the top, then I would think that's all you need to do to sort it there since the default of that property is 0 for everything else.

Thanks for the suggestion. Setting the item's SortOrder to -1 works when the list is first loaded but if the user changes the sorting column or direction, the item will be at the bottom of the list.

So I will need to change SortOrder to -1 for ascending and to 1 for descending but I don't know where to do this?

Hi Rex,

The ShellListView control has a ColumnHeaderTapped event that fires when a column header is tapped.  Can you update the SortOrder for that item in that event?

I tried that but that doesn't work. The CompareObjectsUsingProperty happens before the ColumnHeaderTapped event .

Hi Rex,

Yes it looks like the ShellListView.OnColumnHeaderTapped method ends up getting called right before you can handle the event yourself.  That protected virtual OnColumnHeaderTapped method is where it does the sort toggle.  You could probably override that method in an inherited class and put your logic there instead, then call the base.OnColumnHeaderTapped method.

Thanks but that doesn't work.

It seems the sorting is only done if you tap on a different column so the CompareObjectsUsingProperty is not being called.

I figured out that I can force the sorting by raising the ShellObjectChangeKind.SortRequested event.

This seems to work now.

Hi Rex,

Ah yes, if you are simply reversing the sort order on the currently-sorted column, it will flip the order of the items instead of calling for a full re-sort.  That's a performance optimization.  While OnColumnHeaderTapped is still called in that scenario, the CompareObjectsUsingProperty method isn't called in that case.

Another thing I noticed is the default SortDirection when it is null is different on each column. What determines the default value for that?

Sorry, Nevermind, I found there is a ColumnDefaultSortDirection