Re: [Freecol-developers] Colony building ordering

[Peter S. <wa...@gm...>]

How about simply using a LinkedHashMap? This guarantees that iteration
follows the insertion order.

On a related note, I noticed some time ago that conquered colonies sometimes
have another building order. Has this been fixed since? (hadn't played in a
ling time).

Peter

(sorry Michael for the private mail, forgot to "reply all")

On 1/27/08, Michael Burschik <Mic...@gm...> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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