One more addition to my message above. I’ve begun to look at possibly trying to ovverride the OnSortCol handler and make use of the fact that jqGrid already has an icon that appears in the header when a column is selected. My general notion is to suppress the default sorting behavior by returning stop from this handler override and use my handler to display the popup menu I discussed above. (One of the functions available would be the grid sorting that I suppressed.) I’m going to try this in the next couple days and see what comes of it. But if in the meantime anyone has any thoughts about the likely success or failure of such a technique, I would love to hear them.
Thanks,
Mike