Re: [Freecol-developers] Colony building ordering

[Michael B. <Mic...@gm...>]

Ryan Richard Faith wrote:
> I think an explicit sorting order for BuildingTypes would be a good way to go.
>
> Cheers,
> Ryan
>
> On Jan 27, 2008 2:23 AM, Michael Burschik <Mic...@gm...> wrote:
>   
>> Olivier Schmitt wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I noticed a change in behavior between version 0.7.x and 0.8 trunk.
>>> It relates to the way the buildings are listed on the colony panel.
>>> On the 0.7 screenshot below, the first building is the town hall, the
>>> second one the carpenter's house and then the blacksmith.
>>>
>>> I have come to like the 0.7 ordering.
>>> But on the 0.8 screenshot below the depot appears first followed by
>>> distiller, weaver...
>>>
>>> This new 0.8 ordering is unfortunate I think.
>>> Would it be possible to revert to 0.7 behavior ?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Olivier
>>>
>>>       
>> This is due to the fact that we now store the Colony's buildings in a
>> Map rather than a List. For this reason, the order in which they are
>> returned when enumerating the Map is more or less random. In the
>> ColonyPanel, we could either iterate over the list of BuildingTypes and
>> display the present buildings in this order, or we could define an
>> explicit sorting order for BuildingTypes and use that instead. Your call.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Michael
>>     

We could either add an appropriate attribute to the specification, or 
allow the user to specify the preferred order. However, in the future, 
we might have a graphical representation of the building list (as in 
Colonization), and all the effort would be wasted.

Regards

Michael