Suggestions needed: modifying order of lines in dataset

[njitter]

Hello,

i would like to have some suggestions on how to do this interface-wise.

I have a dataset in a text-file. It contains definitions for function keys.

I'll try to make clear what we want to do.

Old order New order
--------- ---------

1. Help 1. Help
2. Search 2. Search
3. Save 3. Save
4. Next 5. Previous
5. Previous 4. Next
6. View All 7. Add Entry
7. Add Entry 6. View All

(there are some more fields on one line but thats not important for this matter).

What would be the easiest way to change the order of the function keys?

I need a quick way to implement this, its for a one-time job only.

Regards,

Martijn

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[CCLINT]

re-create the file.

Close the dataset.
Open it then file
Pull in ALL of the data
Sort the data
Save all data back to the file, overwriting the old file.

But, it may be easier to just have the desired order stored in a constant or variable, or hard-coded, and open the file for output, and save ALL the data, overwriting the file completely.

 

[njitter]

CCLINT,

its not reading or writing the file that is the problem.

It's creating a simple user-interface tht allows a user to select a row and move it up or down to change the order of the keys.



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[CCLINT]

Use a listbox, listview or flexgrid