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How can I avoid that the categories are being sorted alphabetically, in the CExtPropertyGridCtrl?

I just want to display them the way I insert them "ItemInsert" in the CExtPropertyStore.

Thanks

The CExtPropertyGridCtrl window is a container for one or more tree grid windows (CExtPropertyGridWnd-derived). By default two tree grids are created: CExtPropertyGridWndCategorized and CExtPropertyGridWndSorted. Sorting is configured for each tree grid window inside the property grid control by setting its CExtPropertyGridWnd::m_bSortedCategories and CExtPropertyGridWnd::m_bSortedCategories properties (by default both are true). The following code makes all the tree grids displaying both property categories and values "as is" without any sorting:

CExtPropertyGridCtrl * pPGC = ...
      ASSERT_VALID( pPGC );
CTypedPtrArray < CPtrArray, CExtPropertyGridWnd * > arrGrids;
      pPGC->OnPgcQueryGrids( arrGrids );
INT nGridIdx, nGridCount = INT( arrGrids.GetSize() );
      for( nGridIdx = 0; nGridIdx < nGridCount; nGridIdx ++ )
      {
            CExtPropertyGridWnd * pGrid = arrGrids[ nGridIdx ];
            ASSERT_VALID( pGrid );
            pGrid->m_bSortedCategories = false;
            pGrid->CExtPropertyGridWnd::m_bSortedCategories = false;
      }

This code should be invoked before assigning a property store to the property grid control. If pPGC already displays the content of some property store, you can invoke the following code to reload all the tree grids:

      pPGC->PropertyStoreSynchronize();