Question

I’m displaying a scoreboard from a SQLite table in my app.
I want to the players so that they have the position in front of there name.
The problem i am having is that if they have equal time i want them to have equal position.
and after this i want the loop to jump over the next position. All this should be calculated and inserted into the SQLite database.

Like this:

position   name    time
1         George   4.00
2         Bill     5.02
2         Henry    5.02
4         Sabina   6.05
5         Heini    6.32

I’m not shure how to tackle this.
I want the loop to run just before i set my view, because the background data is changing also.

Can I use an cursor to select from my database an run a while loop? and how can i refer to the previous selection?

Thanks

Answer 1

Try something like this:

int position = 1;
int time, previousTime = 0;
String name;
while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
    name = cursor.getString(...);
    time = cursor.getInt(...);
    if (time != previousTime) {
        position = cursor.getPosition() + 1;
    }
    System.out.println(position + " " + name + " " + time);
}