Movie Sets Collection Grouping for Video Database Library Custom Sort Order Filters?

I went back and searched for a couple old posts I made about this topic awhile bcak and I found this interesting reply that I had completely foprgotten about:

This was posted over a year ago by kraqh3d (a dev who unfortunately hasn't been around since Feb.)

Quote:rockdawg,
this is a little different thing but yes this has brought up before, and it it will be added to the video database. there are some other changes to the video database coming soon so i want to bundle them all together. the "sortname" will be a hidden column in the database that advanced users will be able to take advantage of.

Can any mod/dev comment on whether oir not this ever made it in?

Yeah see that would be perfect right there...any word from devs on this?

It's not there. A patch would be welcome.

jmarshall Wrote:A patch would be welcome.

I've always taken that trademark phrase to mean that none of the devs are willing to consider implementing said feature. Not just right now, but for the forseeable future. If that is an accurate assessment, can I ask why in reagrds to this feature?

I'll be happy to patch it in if someone can point me in the right direction...I've searched through tons of code and so far I managed to find the sorting routines, but not the portion of code that passes the database fields to that function to be sorted.

RockDawg Wrote:If that is an accurate assessment, can I ask why in reagrds to this feature?

Most likely because there is no one currently maintaining the Video Library.

Why "a patch would be welcome" is: Because I don't have time to devote to it.

What you'd need to do is:

1. Add the field to the VideoInfoTag.

2. Add the field to the database (VideoDatabase.h - you have to add to an enum, and to the offsets section - hopefully there's enough unused columns for this.

3. Adjust the sorting routines in SortFileItem to sort by the sort field you added (if it exists) rather than the title.

Once you've taken a look at that, just ask if you need more info.

Cheers,
Jonathan

Will do, I'm just getting my dev laptop back up and re-installed visual studio last night, now I need to find the XDK on one of my hard drives somewhere then I'll start messing with it this weekend and see what I can do.

You can just use the win32 dev environment if you don't want to bother with the XDK - you just need the DirectX SDK.

tools/Win32/XBMC_PC.sln.

Cheers,
Jonathan

Cool, I'm leaving work in a few, I'll post a patch if I can this weekend...