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I beleive that when I did this I used bookmarks to remember the two 
records where I wanted to exchange the keys. You must take care of the 
exceptions - i.e. trying to move the top record up or last record 
down, or if there is only one record.

John
"Daryl" <developeracc@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:4252f69e$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Yes, I have tried to do what you suggest but for me I had the 
> following
> problems.
>
> The item selected (highlighted) in the listbox did not want to 
> automatically
> follow the record being moved say toward the top of the list and the 
> control
> appears to have no method to allow the programmer to 
> select/highlight a
> record in the list.
>
> Also, I found it difficult to cleanly change the value being used to 
> sort
> the recordset.  It is easy enough to say decrement the value of the 
> current
> selected record but then you have to find the record of now the same 
> value
> and increment it.  This should be the prior record - when you code 
> this to
> me it looks clumsy and as I indicated the selected/highlighted 
> record does
> not move up in the list.  It seems to stay on the same record 
> position in
> the list ie if the third record is selected/highlighted then when it
> supposed to move to position two in the list (it does) but the 
> record now at
> position three in the list is selected/highlighted.
>
> I hope this makes sense, thanks for the response.
>
> daryl
>
> "John Scott" <jscott@kw.igs.net> wrote in message
> news:4252b2b9@newsgroups.borland.com...
>> Add another field to the dataset and use the data in this field to
>> sort the data in the dataset. You can then manipulate the data in 
>> this
>> field to change the sort order.
>>
>> John
>> "Daryl" <developeracc@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:42525622@newsgroups.borland.com...
>> >
>> > Cross post - no responses from Compoment Using list...
>> >
>> > I would like to know if it is possible to allow a user to select 
>> > a
>> > record and then move its position in the list (either up or down) 
>> > by
>> > use of a button click.  Of course this list is derived from a
>> > dataset.
>> >
>> > Example:
>> > List contains.
>> > Cars    12
>> > Boats    10
>> > Bikes    2
>> >
>> > Actions:
>> > The user selects (highlights) Bikes  2
>> > The user clicks the MOVE UP button
>> >
>> > Outcome:
>> > The List now reads, and Bikes    2 is still highlighted.
>> > Cars    12
>> > Bikes    2
>> > Boats    10
>> >
>> > Any help would be good.
>> >
>> > thanks
>> > daryl
>>
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