Re: Feature request: context menu column sorting

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently on pgAdmin III, to sort a column in the Edit data screen, you have
> to click on the filter icon (or select Sort / Filter from the Tools menu)
> and define sorts in there.

Or right-click a column and select Sort Ascending or Sort Descending.

> What I'd like to be able to do is have something
> like the following when right-clicking on a column heading:
>
> Sort only by [column_name] asc
> Sort only by [column_name] desc
> Add sort by [column_name] asc
> Add sort by [column_name] desc
>
> If you had 2 columns already in the sort, and you selected one of the "sort
> only" options, it would effecitvely reset filtering and apply it to a single
> column again.
>
> Maybe even introduce column heading highlighting for ones which are
> filtered, and an up/down arrow depicting which ordering is being used.  Sort
> of like this: http://darkixion.com/pgadmin_sort.png

Yeah, that would be handy, but I don't think we can do it with the
wxGrid control.

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Dave Page
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