Android Question list sort custom type

[drgottjr]

is there some way to populate a list of custom type, similar to the way one can populate a list or an array with 1 statement, eg:
<code>
dim array() as string = array as string("erel", "george", "foo", "bar")
</code>

this is implied in list.addall(), but i'm not getting it to work with a custom type. the reason i'm using a custom type is because i want to sort the list later using a sort field. i started out with a map, but erel said to change to a list with a custom type and to chose a sort field. but i'm not getting the initial setup right.

so after an initial setup
<code>
Type customtype( name as string, id as int )
dim customtypelist as list
customtypelist.initialize
</code>

i'd like to be able to do something like this:
<code>
dim ct as customtype("erel", 1)
customtypelist.add( ct )
</code>

or like this:
<code>
dim ct as customtype = ("erel", 1)
customtypelist.add(ct)
</code>

or like this (best choice!)
<code>
customtypelist.addall( ("erel",1), ("george",2), ... )
</code>

what irks me is having to do it this way:
<code>
dim ct as customtype
ct.initialize
ct.name = "erel"
ct.id = 1
customtypelist.add(ct)
</code>

then cutting and pasting and editing the name and id for the remainder of the list one by one.
do i have to write a class to do any of the above? if any of my 3 preferences above is, in fact, doable,
i'm missing something in the execution.

thanks in advance

 

[DonManfred]

please use code tags when posting code. code tags does NOT uses <>... Use []

You dont need to do it manually

 

[DonManfred]

i'd like to be able to do something like this:
<code>
dim ct as customtype("erel", 1)
customtypelist.add( ct )

<ou can create a small sub which return a new customtype based on the given parameters.

 

[drgottjr]

thanks. i guess i wasn't clear regarding what i'm looking for: i'm trying to go down a level, not add one. the little sub essentially is the same as manually creating an instance of a custom type - but wrapped in a sub. (admittedly, it does save cutting and pasting.) i'm looking for a list type's method that does this (and presumably optimized).

and, of course, what i'm really looking for is list.addall( my_list_of_custom_type_instances ) just like it does for list.addall( list as list ). i'm trying to do that, but i must be doing it wrong. someone has gone to the trouble of extending the list type to include the sorttype property to handle the fields in a custom type, yet not allow for the list of custom types to be added to the list with list.addall(). i could do all the steps necessary in basic and then wrap it in a sub, but before inventing the wheel again i'm asking if this already exists, and if it does, what is the proper syntax. is the only way to build a list of custom type by hand, ie, list.add( custom_type instance ) ? or is there a way to do it with list.addall() ?