Sort Space Platform List

[Meehael]

Hi,

It would be great to be able to sort or re-order the list of space platform names in the remote view in top-left.
Maybe by dragging and dropping up and down the list.
Same functionality is already available for pinned items in top right below the minimap.

This list should also be respected in the Rocket Silo when selecting rocket destination for cargo or personnel.

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Thanks

[h.q.droid]

+1. The current sort order is really weird and inconsistent:



The sciences are shuffled around and mingled with other materials. And the planet names failed to match the order of actual planets. It seems to be sorting icons based on ASCII values of some internal English name that don't even have consistent case. From my list, I see:

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'[Automation...'
'[Biter...'
'[Calcite...'
'[Chemical...'
'[Iron...'
'[Logistics...'
'[Promethium...'
'[Space...'
'[Utility...'
'[aquilo...'
'[fulgora...'

Even without manual sorting, the sane default should still be the order they appear in icon selection menus.

[trancexpress]

Manual order would be great, but also a search is needed when you have many platforms.

[eugenekay]

This feature already exists. You can use hidden Rich Text strings as part of the Platform Name to establish any arbitrary Order that you desire. I use "[color=1,2,3][/color]" before the actual Platform Name, with the closing tag placed so that it won't actually change the color of the Text that follows.

+1. The current sort order is really weird and inconsistent:

It seems to be sorting icons based on ASCII values of some internal English name that don't even have consistent case. From my list, I see:

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'[Automation...'
'[Biter...'
'[Calcite...'
'[Chemical...'
'[Iron...'
'[Logistics...'
'[Promethium...'
'[Space...'
'[Utility...'
'[aquilo...'
'[fulgora...'

This list is extremely consistently ordered: Uppercase letters come before Lowercase letters in the ASCII character set. I believe that this Explicit Sort order is the direct result of previous Bug Reports related to Sorting being different on some OSes (Linux vs Windows); but I could not find the Report # right now.


There is certainly some Merit to the idea that the string "[planet=vulcanus]" should be sorted before "[planet=aquilo]", but that sounds like a lot of special-case-handling compared to the current ASCII Sort.