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[v1.0.1-1.0.5] Inventory Sort Order
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 11:51 pm
by Zizzo
So my Alchemist got tired of his gems being scattered haphazardly throughout his inventory and not in tier order. Did a bit of digging and found out that the default ActorInventory:sortInven() is pretty anemic. Hence my new
Inventory Sort Order addon.
Here's the lowdown on the new sort order:
- Default ordering is by type, subtype, material level and name, except for a couple exceptions noted below. Type and subtype are listed in the item description tooltip, like "weapon/mace" or "armor/light".
- The sort order for types is as follows: potion, scroll (covering runes and infusions), jewelry, weapon, ammo, armor, gem, alchemist-gem, lite, lore, misc, money, tool, orb, chest, charm, totem, mount, and the rest alphabetically by type name. [This is where the default ordering falls down; it only covers a few types, and lumps the rest together unsorted by type.]
- Subtype is sorted alphabetically by subtype name. One exception: within the weapon type, bows and slings sort after other weapons.
- We make an exception for gems and alchemist gems, which are sorted by tier before subtype (since for gems, subtype is just color).
I'm putting this out for feedback, both on the ordering and on whether to merge this into ZOmnibus.
[edit 2013-11-13 12:23am:
Technical info:]
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Superload:
mod.class.Player:
showInven() [overloaded, to replace the sort method]
Re: [v1.0.1] Inventory Sort Order
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 11:52 am
by ajfluffy
Finally
I always hated trying to find the right gem!
Re: [v1.0.1] Inventory Sort Order
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 12:56 am
by Zizzo
Pushing out v1a with a small bugfix involving sorting items that don't define a subtype or material level (aka. 'tier'). And since I didn't get any objections, I'm going ahead and merging this addon into ZOmnibus; if you're a ZOmnibus user and particularly attached to the game's current sort order, speak now or forever hold your proverbial peace.
Re: [v1.0.1] Inventory Sort Order
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 4:16 am
by Hunter
This would be very useful. One question...is it possible to tweak inventory to recognize the keyboard letters, i.e. press "j" to select whatever item is listed as "j"? I find scrolling extraordinarily tedious, even with ordered inventory, when converting gems to alchemist gems since there's no batch convert option (thanks to the mana cost, which probably should be removed anyway.) By the middle to late game, unless I dilgently convert at regular intervals, converting 30 diamonds, for instance, is just an exercise in tedium and scrolling.
In fact, I'm going to post the suggestion of removing mana cost and allowing us to select a # of gems over in Ideas.
Re: [v1.0.1] Inventory Sort Order
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 10:54 pm
by Zizzo
Hunter wrote:One question...is it possible to tweak inventory to recognize the keyboard letters, i.e. press "j" to select whatever item is listed as "j"? I find scrolling extraordinarily tedious, even with ordered inventory, when converting gems to alchemist gems since there's no batch convert option (thanks to the mana cost, which probably should be removed anyway.) By the middle to late game, unless I dilgently convert at regular intervals, converting 30 diamonds, for instance, is just an exercise in tedium and scrolling.
I'll look into it. It'll probably end up being a separate addon, since there's no longer any
de facto memory-based limitation to having lots of addons.
In the meantime, you might find my
Use Item Shortcuts addon useful. I think (haven't tested) that your stack of 30 [->29] diamonds would remain selected after you used "Convert to alchemist gems" from the "Use Item" popup, which would at least save you some keystrokes.
Re: [v1.0.1] Inventory Sort Order
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 5:42 pm
by Hunter
Thanks. The letter thing occurred to me because I've noticed it being available in certain other aspects of the game (the latest being purchasing special items from the merchant) so I know the mechanic exists somewhere. I'll test this current download and see if it helps, especially the next time I start an alchemist.
Re: [v1.0.1] Inventory Sort Order
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 3:20 am
by Zizzo
And migrating to v1.0.3.
Re: [v1.0.1] Inventory Sort Order
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 2:05 pm
by Zizzo
So remember I said above that bows and slings were supposed to be sorted below other weapons? Well, I just noticed that the type/subtype of bows is actually weapon/longbow, and my code was looking for weapon/bow, so that wasn't getting sorted properly.
Pushing out v1c to fix that. We Apologize for the Inconvenience.(TM)
Re: [v1.0.1] Inventory Sort Order
Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 1:41 am
by Zizzo
And migrating to v1.0.4.
Re: [v1.0.1-1.0.4] Inventory Sort Order
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 6:34 pm
by Zizzo
Pushing out bugfix release 1e; turns out there's an
artifact gem in the endgame that was choking my sorting code.
Re: [v1.0.1-1.0.4] Inventory Sort Order
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 5:22 am
by Zizzo
And migrating to v1.0.5.
Re: [v1.0.1-1.0.5] Inventory Sort Order
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 10:48 pm
by Doctornull
I would like some way to group gems by (color,tier) so basically all the blue ones are together, and they are in tier order. This is because when I want a blue gem, what I actually want is my current best blue gem.
Appending the tier number to the subtype string could accomplish this, maybe? So a gem's subtype might read "blue / 3".
Re: [v1.0.1-1.0.5] Inventory Sort Order
Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 2:43 am
by Zizzo
Doctornull wrote:I would like some way to group gems by (color,tier) so basically all the blue ones are together, and they are in tier order. This is because when I want a blue gem, what I actually want is my current best blue gem.
? Why would you want a blue gem in particular? At any rate, the easiest approach is probably a game option to control the behavior. I've pushed that out in v1g; the new option is "Sort gems by tier", and toggles between sorting gems by tier then color or by color then tier.
Re: [v1.0.1-1.0.5] Inventory Sort Order
Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 3:29 am
by Doctornull
Zizzo wrote:? Why would you want a blue gem in particular? At any rate, the easiest approach is probably a game option to control the behavior. I've pushed that out in v1g; the new option is "Sort gems by tier", and toggles between sorting gems by tier then color or by color then tier.
I play using the New Gems addon, which makes all gem effects consistent within a color -- and higher tier gems are strictly better than those of lower tiers
So, the blue gems are the +stat gems. If I want higher stats, then I want a blue gem, and specifically I want my
best blue gem. Similarly, if I want an armor boost, I want my
best white gem.
Re: [v1.0.1-1.0.5] Inventory Sort Order
Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 4:25 am
by Doctornull
Zizzo wrote:I've pushed that out in v1g; the new option is "Sort gems by tier", and toggles between sorting gems by tier then color or by color then tier.
It doesn't seem to be working
Neither selection makes the imbue gem screen sort them as I'd hope.