[jsword-devel] Book list order has changed to name from initials

[DM Smith]

I made the change. I'll respond shortly. We can do both. There's a compare function that can be passed. 

Cent from my fone so theer mite be tipos. ;)

> On May 24, 2014, at 7:09 AM, Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The change to name order occurred 4 months ago with 'Optimized Books, especially for lookups' but I can't see any specific reason for the change in order unless I am missing something. I originally added order by initials 11 months ago while solving problems with books having the same description.  Here is the change 4 months ago which changed sort back to name:
> 
> Optimized Books, especially for lookups.
> Use books directly rather than calling getBooks, which creates a copy.
> No longer use BookSet internally, but TreeSet instead.
> Lookup now uses hash maps for O(1) for initials and name. Still loops for case insensitive, but only once.
> Removed getWriteableDrivers. Deprecated unregisterDriver and getMaxLength.
> BookFilterIterator now takes an Iterable<Book> rather than a List<Book>.
> AbstractBookMetaData now sorts name before initials.
> 
> If there are no objections I would like to raise an issue and implement the change to sort by initials.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
>> On 22 May 2014 22:26, Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The books are now being sorted by book.name which is not the name seen on this screen but is the description.  So JSword is sorting books by description.
>> 
>> JSword used to sort by book.initials (which confusingly is name on this screen) until a few weeks ago.  However, there were various changes made including the different sort order.
>> 
>> Since description is random descriptive text but name encapsulates key text which groups similar books together, could we agree to switch back to sorting by initials?
>> 
>> I have a user who is quite upset over this issue and claims the order is "complete chaos".  I could do the sorting in And Bible but I get the book list very frequently and it would have a small affect on performance.
>> 
>> Martin
> 
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