[CF-Devel] item sorting

[Mark Wedel]

Preston Crow wrote:
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      Occasionally there is a particular item that is not sorted into the right
     
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      place in my inventory.  I'm using the GTK client, though I suspect this is
     
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      a server issue.  For example, if I pick up a bunch of treatises, they're
     
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      all together, except for the treatise of dancing sword, which is up near my
     
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      containers.  Likewise, a few of the artifact weapons will show up down near
     
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      the end of my inventory instead of with the other weapons.
     
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 Actually, its a client issue.  The client deals with all sorting of objects.

 Look at the item_types file and adjust as needed.

 In retrospect, it may not have been the best idea to leave all the sorting
responsibility to the client.  A better approach probably would have been for
the item type (as in define.h) to get sent along with the item, and then the
client could have a translation table on how to order those (ie, I want type 65
at the top, top 4 near the bottom, group type 20, 25, 28 together, etc).