Hi > It would be nice to be able to change the order of the games in the database manually. Obviously it is possible to sort the DB by some criteria, but sometimes it would be helpful to manually rearrange the order of games.
Yes, this is a very reasonable request. But problems i see are - Shane designed Scids Database for speed and compactness, with very little data constructs for handling order. I am not super familiar with our DB backend data structures. Our gamelist / filter / search / tree code is complicated already, and would need to be overhauled. Our database integrity and bug-free codebase should be well respected. There exist implementation questions ? Do we write new file order to disk after every game swap/rearrange , merely make order changes temporary, or run/increase the risk of system fallover permanently breaking databases ? So unless some C++ / DB guru has a few solid man-months or more to spare :), I don't think this will ever be addressed. Our clipbase *is* clunky, but may have to be sufficient. One plus i see is that operations of the type you describe are generally done on small data sets. Enabling them to be done on 6 million game databases may be not worthwhile/feasible or desirable. cheers Steven
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