[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Patch] Gold Sort order (12 < 2)? (PR#949)

[Paul Zastoupil <paulz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 10:45:04PM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 01:30:11PM -0700, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:45:05PM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 08:23:51PM +0200, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > > > Am Montag, 10. September 2001 20:40 schrieb Raimar Falke:
> > > > 
> > > > >
> > > > > Known problem. The attached patch should fix this. The sorting is
> > > > > also improved:
> > > > >  - 1st click on the Economy column: gold ascending
> > > > >  - 2nd click: gold descending
> > > > >  - 3rd click: luxury ascending
> > > > >  - 4th click: luxury descending
> > > > >  - 5th click: science ascending
> > > > >  - 6th click: science descending
> > > > >  - 7th click: gold ascending
> > > > >
> > > > > You get the idea. This also works with any other column. Fields are
> > > > > separated by / or (.
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, a quite good idea. Indeed, it is on my personal wishlist for long.
> > > > Of course it is not usefull yet, because it is hard to see
> > > > what is sorted and how. One possibility is maybe, put all numbers
> > > > in different columns (without parting line inbetween?), and
> > > > highlightning the header which determines the actual sort order.
> > > > There is enough room for this. Maybe it is possible to have
> > > > split column headers (e.g.:
> > > > 
> > > >      |   Surplus   |   Economy  |
> > > >      |  F | P | T  |  G | L | S |
> > > > 
> > > > ), too.
> > > 
> > > Second version. Works no also with the english translation. Comments?
> > > 
> > 
> > It seems a little bulky with the 'asc' 'desc'.
> > 
> > I think Christian Knoke meant that there should actually be an individual
> > column for each item.  i.e. one column for Food, one for Production and
> > one for Trade.  This would be rather more involved.
> 
> This may be nice. But how do you construct the column titles?

Actually I just reread Christian's message, he was suggesting hiliting the 
letter that it
was sorted by.

Maybe just a little arrow next to the letter?

Something like:

 Fv| P | T
 F^| P | T
 F | Pv| T
 F | P^| T

Etc.

-- 
Paul Zastoupil