Hmmm - no, it has bugs. I have a corrupted base somehow. S.A. On Sat, Jul 3, 2021 at 9:23 AM Steve A <stevena...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, amazingly there's been two rainy days here :) and I have coded this > for anyone with a compiler and wanting to test it. Please unzip and apply > the attached patch to source code for 4.21 (or checkout subversion would be > much better, and then apply the patch) with something like > patch --dry-run -p0 <reorder.diff > then, if no mistakes, > patch -p0 <reorder.diff > make clean install > There are now context menus to reorder single games in the gamelist. It > seems to work 100%, but *please backup databases*, and test it > thoroughly, as It is doing nasty bashing of totally essential data > structures and perhaps there are issues with other features i have not > seen. I'll probably apply it to subversion before too long. > Steve > > On Sat, Jul 3, 2021 at 1:38 AM John Gray <jdg...@protonmail.com> wrote: > >> Great! Yes, I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. >> >> Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com/> Secure Email. >> >> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ >> On Friday, July 2nd, 2021 at 2:53 AM, Steve A <stevena...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Ok John, i am coding this. >> It's a bit of new stuff for me, but i have the move game up/down working >> i think. It is all done inside the gamelist , as a context menu for a game. >> Moving a game to a specific game number , and even moving a sequential >> group of games should be possible. >> >> I don't suppose you are using Linux so we can easily do some testing ? >> (Don't worry about CC-ing the mailing list more on this topic.) >> Cheers >> >> On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 6:51 AM John Gray <jdg...@protonmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Steve, thanks for the response. To be clear, I don't really care if >>> this functionality exists in the gamelist window specifically. I just want >>> to be able to tell scid "move this specific game to a new position (number >>> xyz) in the order of the db." I'm happy to do this one game at a time, >>> don't care what window I have to use to do it, and would settle for a slow, >>> cumbersome process as long as it was faster and less error prone than what >>> I described before. >>> >>> One thing that might do equally well would be if scid could just give >>> each game a pgn field called ("sort rank") and allow the user to run >>> something from the maintenance window to reassign the value of this field >>> to whatever each games *current* position in the DB is ("update sort >>> rank"). Don't worry about new functionality to change the order, but give >>> the user a quick way to auto-generate a field representing the current >>> order which the user could then modify and sort on. So the first game in >>> the DB gets the value "1" in this field etc. Then the user could manually >>> change game 97's sort rank to 84.5, sort on "sort rank" and the problem is >>> solved. >>> >>> The user can even do this on his own right now to some extent. I can use >>> e.g. the "round" field to track the order I want things in. The problems >>> are: 1.) I might want "round" for something else so it would be cleaner to >>> have a field specifically for sorting 2.) I might not have the sort order >>> field on a set of problems I get from somewhere else. It would be nice if >>> scid could generate it 3.) the sort numbers will get messy over time >>> (pretty soon you will have something like 84.5739). If scid could >>> auto-assign each game's current ordinal rank to a dedicated pgn field (that >>> was included in the sort options, of course) it would really solve the >>> problem. >>> >>> Thanks in any case. >>> >>> Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com/> Secure Email. >>> >>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ >>> On Tuesday, June 29th, 2021 at 8:52 AM, Steve A <stevena...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > In Chess Assistant it is possible to just highlight a game in the >>> game list and use some keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Arrow maybe?) >>> >>> I mean, maybe this minimal implentation (to reverse two games order) >>> could be done with minimal disruption of the DB backend, mostly inside the >>> gamelist widget... But we would have to dual-mode the gamelist as it could >>> not be done with a selective filter displayed. >>> >>> Ttk::treeview is such an ordinary, underpowered thing, and because we >>> have to accommodate millions of games, we never populate it properly, only >>> the view that we see, which makes many things nasty and complicated. >>> >>> S. >>> >>> >>> >>
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