Thread: Mouse drag-and-drop sorting
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Old 12-28-2017, 02:08 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by marcb81 View Post
Hi Kovidgoyal,
I think there are a lot of people that would like to have this feature i.e. to be able to sort via drag-and-drop with the mouse on some arbitrary criteria mimicking what happen when you rearrange the books on the shelf.
May be in Calibre should come with a built-in column named for example
"arbitrary sorting" that will be automatically set to a number each time you manually sort books with the mouse.
It is up to the user to choose this "arbitrary sorting" column or any other metadata column to sort the books.

Could you please give some suggestions/sample code on hiw to implement this feature?
What programming language you have to use?
I have to agree with the others. Most of my shelves were organised by author and then title. But, there was one which was effectively random as new books, or recently finished books were put there until I shelved the properly. On set of shelves is about 3M tall, so I would occasionally get a ladder out to shelve them properly.

To achieve what I think you want, you try the Reading List plugin. With this, you create a list, add books to it and order them how you want. The ordering isn't drag-and-drop, but select and push some arrows. I think it will come close to what you want.
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