[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2607) city report fields still don't sort perfectly

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:31:47PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Christian Knoke wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 08:56:26AM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> > >
> > > [jdorje - Tue Sep  9 15:39:33 2003]:
> > >
> > > > Sorting is done numerically for numeric fields, and alphabetically for
> > > > text fields.  The problem is some fields are combination fields
> > > > (generally containing multiple numbers) that are sorted alphabetically.

> > Long time ago I have made a little patch which did combined alpha/numerical
> > sorting; it splitted the string into pieces at the slashes.
> >
> > I still think this was an improvement of the current situation, which is
> > annoying IMHO.
> >
> > If you think that to I might be able to do an update of that patch.
> 
> I don't want a patch that's a hack and doesn't solve everything.  But I
> can imagine that something like this could give good behavior.  We need to
> be able to sort by any field in the combination, in either direction.
> 
> I imagine this would mean sorting would have to be done entirely by
> freeciv, so that client/cityrepdata.c tracks both the field being sorted
> by and the direction of sort.  The typical GUI interface of clicking on
> the header to toggle the direction of sort would instead toggle between
> all of the possible sorting methods.

Please don't. Raimar had made a patch for this, and it was horrible. It's
unusuable.

The best way are 2 lines of column headers (see ticker), but you claimed that
this is not possible with GUI's.

Christian

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