[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6074) Numeric sorting in city report

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, John Wheeler wrote:

>
> I think the sorting issues in PR#2607 have been resolved, but I do have
> a very similiar issue: sorting appears to be text based, even for
> numeric fields.  So, for example after sorting the food stock column,
> you can easily have:
>
> 124/130
> 47/50
> 5/20
> 64/80

Now I remember... Didn't someone change the GTK+ 1.2 client to make this
differently? Please check if this is so and which client you are using.
If this is a GTK+ 2.0 specific issue I can try to make it more like the
GTK+ 1.2 client.

> The simplest solution I can think of is padding short numbers with
> spaces, so the output becomes:
>
>   5/20
>  47/50
>  64/80
> 124/130
>
> This also would have the side benefit of improving the appearance.

No it wouldn't. You assume everyone uses a monospaced font. The GTK+
clients do not use monospaced fonts hence ' ' is less wide than, say,
'8'.
The way we solve this in the GTK+ 2.0 client is to use the built-in widget
column alignment attribute. The problem here is that you have the data of
two columns stuck into one column.

I always wanted to turn the food box data into a progress bar. But there
is no progress bar cell renderer in the GTK+ 2.0 API to use in the cities
report. Oh well.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa