how changing order of icon in menu ?

by **shan_aya** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:05 pm

hi,
where is files to change to modify order of addons/fonction in menu ?

thx

by **zanix** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:24 am

I think you want to be able to move around the buttons in the menu, correct?

Currently, there isn't a way to do this with the addon buttons because they are added automatically and usually in alphabetical order

by **SethDeBlade** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:12 am

zanix wrote:.... because they are added automatically and usually in alphabetical order

Must be an enUS-feature only :p

for german roster it seems "a little bit" randomized

by **PleegWat** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:15 am

There's no actual alphabetical sorting taking place. The addon's menu.php files are processed in alphabetical order of the addon's name, and the buttons are added to the screen in that order. Within an addon the order in the menu array is kept.

by **zanix** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:17 am

PleegWat wrote:There's no actual alphabetical sorting taking place. The addon's menu.php files are processed in alphabetical order of the addon's name, and the buttons are added to the screen in that order. Within an addon the order in the menu array is kept.

LoL, I meant alphabetical order based on the addon's folder name

by **SethDeBlade** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:30 am

the "sortorder" in my roster is as follows:

public delete
reputation
itemsets
guildbank (categurized)
spellbooks
max resists
recipe
siggen
memberlog
bookworm

you can have a look at it via my site-button. this is why i said it looks randomized

by **zanix** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:45 am

Then I don't know then

How about this?
The order is whatever order php scans the addon directories for menu.php and adds them to the array for display

by **shan_aya** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:02 pm

hehehe,
to do list for 1.7.1 is now longer than 1 item :p

by **vgjunkie** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:40 pm

Just an FYI from the php manual regarding readdir function:

Returns the filename of the next file from the directory. The filenames are returned in the order in which they are stored by the filesystem.

If you wanted them in alphabetical order, in the lib/menu.php file for the makeAddonList function you could change:

Code: Select all: $lCount = 0; //link count

to:

Code: Select all: $lCount = 0; //link count asort($addons);

The function you use can pretty much be sort, asort, arsort or rsort .. etc as the keys don't seem to make any difference inside the function.

by **cynthetiq** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 5:00 pm

thanks! that really helped out; I am studying the different types of readdir sorting since I know little to nothing about php, but this helped tremendously as I'm now able to put them in a reasonable order.

by **Speedtorch** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:47 am

OMG! That is awesome! The addon sorting was driving me crazy! Thank you!