<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Class: SortBlock</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.42"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Pyrite Programmers Guide" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Blocks" HREF="c47.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Class: CategoryAppBlock" HREF="x271.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Class: Resource" HREF="x317.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Pyrite Programmers Guide</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x271.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 1. Blocks</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x317.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="REF-BLOCKS-SORTBLOCK" >Class: SortBlock</A ></H1 ><P > A <TT CLASS="CLASSNAME" >SortBlock</TT > object represents the sort information (or <I CLASS="FIRSTTERM" >sortinfo</I >) block of a database. Each database may have exactly one associated sortinfo block. </P ><DIV CLASS="IMPORTANT" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="IMPORTANT" ><P ><B >Important: </B > The use of sortinfo blocks, and thus <TT CLASS="CLASSNAME" >SortBlock</TT > objects, is deprecated. No known application uses them, and the standard installation and backup software (including that found in Pyrite) does not copy them. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > <TT CLASS="CLASSNAME" >SortBlock</TT > is a subclass of <TT CLASS="CLASSNAME" >Block</TT >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x271.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x317.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Class: CategoryAppBlock</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c47.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Class: Resource</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >