[slinkelist] Cannot sort in playlist grid

[Colby Boles]

I understand your goal. The problem then becomes that if you play / are 
playing the playlist, it won't be played in the order you see it which 
becomes very messy for the user.

Colby


At 12:45 PM 9/9/99 -0700, Jonathan Scott wrote:
>The issue here is not with wanting to play the playlist in column order - I
>agree that it would be a bit odd to want to do that. I would like to be able
>to sort the view to make it easier to review the playlist, particularly to
>remove unintended duplicates.
>
>Thanks
>
>Jonathan.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Colby Boles [mailto:cboles@nirvis.com]
>Sent: 09 September 1999 12:18
>To: Jonathan Scott; 'slinkelist@nirvis.com'
>Subject: Re: [slinkelist] Cannot sort in playlist grid
>
>
>this has come up a number of times. the playlist is not sortable. the way
>the data is modeled now, if you did sort the playlist, it would no longer
>play the items in order, which would be very confusing. our sort feature
>sorts the view you are looking at, not the underlying data. in the playlist
>case, I think you would need to sort the underlying data so that it plays
>in that order. personally, I'm not sure why you would ever play songs in
>alphabetical order or in order of playing time, etc.
>
>Colby
>
>
>At 12:14 PM 9/9/99 -0700, Jonathan Scott wrote:
> >The main grid sorts fine, but the playlist grid will not sort. Right
> >clicking gives the normal sorting options, but when selected nothing
> >happens.
> >This behaviour occurs in the latest (8/25) version.
> >
> >Is this a known issue?
> >
> >Jonathan Scott
> >Senior Engineer
> >Constellar Corp.
> >(650) 631 4840
> >
> >
> >
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