Chat Manager Improvement

[JmBrPotter]

Problem: Sometimes, when I login and open my Chat Manager, the order of the messages in my message list changes.

 

Requested Solution Possibilities:

 

1- Make the chat message list stable. It gets created in SOME oder. Whatever that order is, preserve it.

 

2- Add a sort key (e.g., "message number") to each message and sort them on that key when the key is present.

 

3- Provide a means to upload messages from a text file with the messages loading in the same order as their appearance in the text file.

 

Problem Explanation:

 

This is an ISSUE for me (maybe no one else, though) because my partner and I bid a unusual home brew system that skates up to the ACBL HUM border while staying ACBL GCC compliant. We owe our opponents pre-alerts and assorted courtesies so they will not interpret our calls or carding in an SAYC (or any other known system) context (For example, our conventional 1♦ opening shows 15-37 HCP and is a one round force, our 1NT opening is 10-14HCP in all seats at all vulnerabilities and may conceal a 5-card major, and we lead LOW from xx.)

 

Thus, I have quite a few canned chat messages. I prepared them in order as follows:

 

- The first three are . . .

. . . Welcome to the table and a confession that we are an established partnership playing an unusual system

. . . General system properties

. . . Pre-alerts

 

- The next message is a row of hyphens to divide my messages into groups.

 

- The next several messages are for "making nice to partner" ("Thank you, Partner", "Nice defense, Partner", and the like) in alphabetic order so I can find the one I want QUICKLY.

 

- The next message is a row of hyphens -----------------.

 

- The next several messages are for "making nice to the opponents" ("Well done, Opponents", "Thanks for the pleasant round, Opponents", and the like) also alphabetized.

 

- Then -------------------------

 

- The next (alphabetized) group is messages that do not fit the above categories.

 

Needless to say, shuffling my chat messages makes a mess for me AND it takes a while (usually, 5-15 minutes) to clean up the mess each time. The need to do this is frustrating and irritating.

 

Some logins shuffle my messages and some do not. I have NOT been able to ferret out a pattern.

[fred]

We actually changed things recently so that the order of items are presented in the same order that the items were created. This change is retroactive in nature.

 

The same behavior now also takes effect for deals stored in "my favorite hands".

 

Sorry if this changed messed things up for you, but the order should now be stable (and sensible) going forward.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com