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This is a great script. The problem however, is that the script doesn't work if you have mixed case arrays. If you substitute "Bad" with "bad" or "My" with "my", the sort is done in ASCII format, with all upper case words before those beginning with lowercase words. How can this be solved? How do you provide a bubble sort function with a comparison function to change the way it is sorted? Thank you for your help.

Regards,
Roger Norum

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Have copied the source code
samples and tried my own table
sorting without success. I missing some key knowledge as to
how make this fit together. Don't quite know know to add the data so that it will display into the sort table (which dosn't sort anyway) Using IE 4.01 If anyone has the time to check a sample page of mine and to look over the source code, they may see my problem. Any advice would be appreciated. The address is..
http://www.aracnet.net/~encore/advertisers.html
Thanks Lou

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Please Please respond. Binding
table works fine and sorts as it should, but, need the last cell to the right of each column to link to a different URL. No one seems to be able to help. Can you advise exactly where and what to do to achieve this result.
Thanks Lou Neveu

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I am wondering if you have any articles detailing how to use an actual database to do this. I have a book which defines the dataURL to be a .csv file, you define it as a .txt file, if I have an access database do I need to create a text file from it or can I connect to the database directly??

Thanks,
Emilio

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You should expalin the use of RDS within IE as well as this allows dynamic queries from databases, etc.

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Is it possible to use the data-binding process discussed:

<OBJECT ID="dataBindId" CLASSID="clsid:333C7BC4-460F-11D0-BC04-0080C7055A83">

to fill in an array instead of building a table?
If so, how would it be coded to assign the text in the data file
to the array.

Thanks

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Would it be possible to get the actual HTML and Javascript code for GENERIC.HTM. Can I also use the code with a code generator like Cold Fusion??? By the way the article is very good reading and provide a good description of table sorting

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Thank you very much! Impressive! I like the Bininding method a lot and itīs so easy to do, even for ignorants as me.
Regardos!
Ralph

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This articale offered a solution to the exact problem I am trying to solve. i.e Sorting a column in a HMTL table. E.g table containing names and phone numbers. The only problem is I could not get it work on my sytem.
In fairness the artical does say the following:

"One thing to note with the above two examples, because they use the locations search property, they will not work offline using Microsoft Internet Explorer. "

And this maybe the problem. I reach the source file onintra net. Or have totally misuderstood what this says. Can some one help? I would appreciate it.

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Shamim

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Hello,

mutlicolumn TDC seems to be broken in explorer for osX.

The funny thing is it worked
in the beta version, but not
in the release when 10.1 came out.

Is there anyone I can contact about this?

thanks.

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Excellent article -- just one thing. Any ideas how one specifies the type of a DATAFLD (so that sorting on, say, numbers has the expected effect)?

Cheers,

Richard.

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Lou Neveu wanted to change the last column to a link instead of just plain data.
Well just change the data into a link!
var width = 4;
myObjectArray[objectArrayIndex++] = new myObject('Number','Text','Date','Name');
myObjectArray[objectArrayIndex++] = new myObject(100,'abc','19971104','Me');

becomes

var width = 4;
myObjectArray[objectArrayIndex++] = new myObject('Number','Text','Date','Name');
myObjectArray[objectArrayIndex++] = new myObject(100,'abc','19971104','<a href="http://www.me.com">Me</a>');

as simple as that

Would be nice to see a solution that would read a datafile in Netscape.

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great article! works well, thanks a bunch.

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I love the Dynamic Table Sorting. It works great. However, I am having a problem in one area.

I changed the header "Number" to "Field Office". Examples of field offices number are like 234, 251, 321, etc... However, some offices have a letter for the first digit like B22, H21, D34, etc... The HTML code does not work when I enter the offices that began with letters. What action do I need to take so that the "Field Office" column can be sorted?

Thanks,

Jim