Re: [Jmri-developers] Decoder XMLs

[Bill C. <orr...@ya...>]

Thanks Bob,
I didn't get the alphabetizing quite right!
I will adjust files, etc. and fix this for the MRCs as they do need fixing.

Bill
 
Bill Chown
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----- Original Message ----
From: Bob Jacobsen <Bob...@lb...>
To: "Discussions about changes to the code;  design, intent, etc" <jmr...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:54:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Jmri-developers] Decoder XMLs

At 8:23 AM -0700 4/16/08, Bill Chown wrote:
>But you do raise a good question; the list shows "a mess", with 
>decoders of the same "family" appearing in two places, even though 
>the family name is a copy/paste.
>Bob J, this was one of my questions about the listing sequence here; 
>part of the problem is MRC's "system" of numbering, but that's not 
>it really.
>Why does the decoder indexing come up with this strange sequence? 
>You told me it had to do with alphabetical ordering, but the result 
>does not reflect that.

When building the decoder index:

The files are processing in alphanumeric order by file name.

Every time a new family is encountered, it's put into the index in that order.

When starting a new file, if it contains the same family name as the 
previous one, they'll appear as a single family folder in the 
selection tree.  But that only is done when they're adjacent.  If 
there's an intervening file, with a family of a different name, then 
the two with identical names will appear separately.

If you want families to appear in a different order, rename the files 
containing them.  The Digitrax files, for example, use a leading 
numeric character to control the order:  Digitrax_0SFX.xml, then 
Digitrax_01x3.xml, then Digitrax_1x2.xml, then Digitrax_Basic.xml, 
..., then finally Digitrax_xearly.xml and Digitrax_yDS54.xml.

Bob
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