Thread: alphabetizing , plz help

i'm trying to add a little order to my list box by alphabetizing the array list it gets the string from
the only problem is i keep running in to dead ends ><

can some 1 plz help

here's the class that sits in the array list

class Item {
	String name;
	int count;
	public Item (String name,int count){
		this.name= name;
		this.count= count;
	}
}

all i need is a sort method for an array list that will hold lots of them

useing that , would i be able to change what items go where in the list while the string being read is inside of the items?
cause really thats what i need

ok , u lost me there ><

idk what u mean by sorting rules , i mean isnt alphabetizing only done in 1 way anyways ?

how it sorts would be perfect
the only problem is with the fact my strings are in a object in the list
( to get 1 of the strings i use something like list.get(1).string )

Implement comparable (or comparator, I forget which one Collections.sort uses), then simply call the comparable portion of the string class:

class Item implements Comparable<Item>
{
// Comparable example, I believe Comparator is very similar
// your Item code is above, I was just too lazy to copy/paste
 
     // CompareTo method from Comparable
     public int compareTo(Item other)
     {
          return this.name.compareTo(other.name);
     }
}

not sure how that would have worked
but i found a round about way to use the
collections .sort();
i copyed all the strings to an array then sorted that ,
after that i checked where the sorted string was and added
the object that contained that string to a new array witch then
overwrote the original one

ah , ok
i'll have to try that next time