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Class grendel.view.Sorter

java.lang.Object
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This sorts a set of messages by some metric. The set of messages may already be arranged into a thread hierarchy; in that case, siblings are sorted while leaving parent/child relationships intact. The sets of messages are accessed via the ISortable interface.

See Also: ISortable, Threader, Comparer, QSort

class  Sorter
     extends java.lang.Object
{
          // Fields 2
     private QSort sorter;
     private Vector v;

          // Constructors 1
     public Sorter(Comparer);

          // Methods 2
     public void sortMessageChildren(ISortable);
     private void sortMessageChildren_1(ISortable);
}

• v

   private Vector v

• sorter

   private QSort sorter

• Sorter

   public Sorter(Comparer comparer) 

Creates an object for sorting messages. Use the sortMessageChildren() method to sort them.

Parameter	Description
comparer	The object which compares two ISortable objects for ordering.

• sortMessageChildren

   public void sortMessageChildren(ISortable sortable_root) 

Sorts the set of messages indicated by sortable_root. The child-list of sortable_root will be modified (reordered) upon completion (as will all grandchildren.)

Parameter	Description
sortable_root	The root object; it should have children, but no siblings.

• sortMessageChildren_1

   private void sortMessageChildren_1(ISortable parent) 

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