Re: ppg list box sorting

["Steven Caron" <carons(at)gmail.com>]

thanks for you input Vince, but i already have 3 list boxes on this page doing various other things. i think the way i designed it is the most efficient for the users. except this doesn't work so i just added in some extra code to handle the picking differently. instead it is now 4 combo boxes that contain all the possible values. since the purpose of that list box was to pick four parameters in a specific order, i have just made the ordering part more obvious and slow with 4 combo boxes

going to log my request... and make a big fuss about it. cause it seems for them to design it with a sort behavior is extra work and to not expose an attribute ( siNoSortListSelection? ) to turn it off is a shame

steven

On 10/23/07, Vince Fortin <vfortin(at)gmail.com> wrote:

I recall I did an even smoother version of this once in Maya that consisted of two non-multi lists and as soon as the user clicked on an item, it'd teleport to the other list. That would require on_clicked events though, can't remember they work with list boxes in XSI.

On 10/23/07, Vince Fortin < vfortin(at)gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Steven,
I would be really surprised if that was possible.
Best way I found design-wise is 2 list boxes. One listing all your items and one empty.
A couple of buttons between them let the user add and remove items in the empty box and reorder them.

One example is in Internet Explorer. Go in Tools > Toolbars > Customize.
It might work or not depending on what you are doing but overall I found it's a good workflow in many situations.

My 2c!
Vincent

On 10/23/07, Steven Caron < carons(at)gmail.com> wrote:

this is the first time i have tried to use list boxes and i have run into a hitch when using a list box in "siUIMultiSelectionListBox" mode. XSI is sorting the selected items. i dont want it to sort them. i want them in the order the user selected them. my list box looks like this...

1 Say_X_Oo
2 Say_X_E
3 Say_X_A
4 Say_X_Mm

if i select item 1, 3, 4, then 2 the string parameter that is tied to this list box looks like this...

paramMLBX = 1;2;3;4

i would prefer it look like this...

paramMLBX = 1;3;4;2

is this possible?

small screen shot attached, no matter what order i select these items in, the MLBX param is sorted in indexed order

thanks
steven