Question on Sorting

[tmiranda]

Gents,

I'm working on an STV that displays TV Recordings, Imported Videos, DVDs and BluRays all at once and (hopefully) supports multiple grouping and sorting options. What is the best way to sort items if I want to sort them based on the result of different methods? For example, when sorting by title I need to use GetAiringTitle() for TV but GetShowEpisode() for other types of video. How do I get to a single list that contains all types of video sorted alphabetically by their title?

What I've got right now is separate lists for each type of video where each list is sorted using the proper method (TVList, VideoList, DVDList, BluRayList). I really hope I do not have to manually sort them all

Thanks,

Tom

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

Gents,

I'm working on an STV that displays TV Recordings, Imported Videos, DVDs and BluRays all at once and (hopefully) supports multiple grouping and sorting options. What is the best way to sort items if I want to sort them based on the result of different methods? For example, when sorting by title I need to use GetAiringTitle() for TV but GetShowEpisode() for other types of video. How do I get to a single list that contains all types of video sorted alphabetically by their title?

What I've got right now is separate lists for each type of video where each list is sorted using the proper method (TVList, VideoList, DVDList, BluRayList). I really hope I do not have to manually sort them all

Thanks,

Tom

Why not filesGetMediaFiles("TVDBL")
SortByMethod(files,false,"GetShowTitle")

Unless I am misunderstanding what you are wanting/needing. You may have to use GetShowEpisde I can't remember but I believe one will work for both tv and videos.

If I am not mistaken that should work of course allot has changed with bmt so I could be wron.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

Why not filesGetMediaFiles("TVDBL")
SortByMethod(files,false,"GetShowTitle")

Unless I am misunderstanding what you are wanting/needing. You may have to use GetShowEpisde I can't remember but I believe one will work for both tv and videos.

If I am not mistaken that should work of course allot has changed with bmt so I could be wron.

I want to sort the T's using GetAiringTitle and the rest using GetShowEpisode and then combine them into one list. There is no one method that works for all types of files, that is the problem.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

I want to sort the T's using GetAiringTitle and the rest using GetShowEpisode and then combine them into one list. There is no one method that works for all types of files, that is the problem.

Not sure how to go about it in studio as I don't know if it will let you pass an expression In the sorting call but would be pretty easy to do in java.

As always more than willing to code it for you if needed but it will simply be

Gettitle(object mediaobject){
if(IsTV(mediaobject)){
return getairingtitle(mediaobject)}
else{
retune getepisodename(mediaobject)}
}

I would use sagex's calls to do this as it is object oriented as per above)

[razrsharpe]

like plucky said the simplest way to do this is with some custom java code... i could have sworn the flux api had some code in there for specifically this purpose.... not sure though cause its been so damn long since i looked at the code. The ortus api definitely has this code in there... its very similar to what plucky wrote above in psuedocode.