Proper savegame sorting

[The Aziz]

By date or actual name, anything

Just, please, not like this

You know how unintuitive this is? When your latest quicksave is #111 but you won't find it at the end of the list, but somewhere between #11 and #12?
Not to mention 200+...

[TheDestroyer111]

what y no1 suggest that b4

Edited October 24, 2017 by TheDestroyer111

[HebaruSan]

58 minutes ago, The Aziz said:

By date or actual name, anything

That list is sorted by "actual name", in a specific programming sense.

It's sorted lexicographically, which is a ten dollar word for the way words are sorted in a dictionary. This method starts at the beginning of each word, comparing each pair of letters in turn, and stops as soon as it finds a difference. When comparing "108" and "11", it gets to the second character and notes that 0 is less than 1, so therefore it sorts "10" before "11"; the fact that there's another number after the "10" is ignored, as inconvenient as that might be for you.

This means you can achieve your desired sorting by typing the numbers yourself with zero-padding to make all the numbers the same length: "quicksave #0011" would always sort before "quicksave #0108". You can even do this after the fact by renaming the sfs and loadmeta files in your save folder.

Of course it would be better if the list was simply sorted by file timestamp (as with many other menus in the game).

[The Aziz]

6 hours ago, HebaruSan said:

 

It's sorted lexicographically, which is a ten dollar word for the way words are sorted in a dictionary. 

Which is a bad method, especially if it involves lots of digits. (you said it. "in dictionary")

I'm aware of such thing, but as you can see, it has flaws.

Edited October 25, 2017 by The Aziz