Re: [Scidvspc-users] Feature Request: Change Game Order Manually

[John G. <JD...@pr...>]

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.

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On Tuesday, June 29th, 2021 at 8:52 AM, Steve A <ste...@gm...> wrote:

>> In Chess Assistant it is possible to just highlight a game in the game list and use some keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Arrow maybe?)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> S.