Reverse Sort Listview?

[scriptor2016]

Hi everyone

I'm using this line in my code, and it sorts the listview alphabetically - but this isn't what I'm looking to do.

What do I have to change here in order to sort the listview in reverse-order? (bottom line of listview will appear at top).. I can't find the proper info or syntax in the documentation...

Thanks in advance

[scriptor2016]

oops, it might help if I actually included that line of code (d'oh!)...

LV_ModifyCol(1,"Sort")

[Jim Dunn]

Does

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 LV_ModifyCol(ColumnNumber, "SortDesc")

work?

from: https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/ListView.htm#Column_Options_Sorting

Sort: Immediately sorts the column in ascending order (even if it has the Desc option).

SortDesc: Immediately sorts the column in descending order.

There's also:

Desc: Descending order. The column starts off in descending order the first time the user sorts it.

[scriptor2016]

thanks Jim!

whoops, edit - "SortDesc" just alphabetially reverses the list, so Z would be at the top of the list.

I was hoping to first load in the listview (which is loaded from a randomly-sorted, non-alphabeticalized text file), and then when the list is loaded, just reverse its order so the bottom item appears at the top, and so on.

Maybe when reading from the text file, it should somehow read from the bottom up (instead of top down) in order for this to work?

[scriptor2016]

After searching the forums, a workable approach is indeed to reverse-read the text file in order to have the bottom line appear at the top of the listview:

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targetFile = C:\MyFile.txt
lineCount :=
Loop,
    {
    FileReadLine, nullVar, %targetFile%, %A_Index%
     if ErrorLevel
            break
    lineCount := A_Index
    }
Loop,
    {
    FileReadLine, currentLine, %targetFile%, %lineCount%
     if ErrorLevel
         {
         break
         }
    lineCount--
    msgbox, %currentLine%
    }

[kczx3]

Don’t reverse read the file. I would just read the file, split it on `n, then reverse loop the resulting array to populate the list view.