Sortable Lists at the new Tracking Station!

[AbacusWizard]

From the latest devnotes (http://kerbaldevteam.tumblr.com/):

 

vessels in the tracking station can be sorted in order of when their next manoeuvre node is set to occur

 

Hooray! This is the best news about 1.1 I've heard yet! I'm hoping the code is expandable to allow other ways to sort the list as well--alphabetically, by type, by sphere of influence, by mass, by amount of a given resource, by number of kerbals on board... such great possibilities.

 

EDIT: Or maybe not. Boo.

Edited February 10, 2016 by AbacusWizard

[HebaruSan]

There was also this, though. It sounds like there may have been some miscommunication between the developers and the writers of the devnote as to exactly what was implemented.

 

[AbacusWizard]

Gah! Come on, DevTeam; why not just make it sortable?

[HebaruSan]

8 minutes ago, AbacusWizard said:

Gah! Come on, DevTeam; why not just make it sortable?

I think it's a safe bet that they will eventually, especially now that they've accidentally announced it to universal acclaim , but adding it now probably isn't a good fit for the current stage of 1.1's development. The rest of the changes are pretty mature and nearly wrapped up at this point, and adding a sort here would require completely new UI elements that would have to be tested, bug-fixed, etc. from scratch, potentially setting the whole release back. I'd wager that tracking station sorting comes out with the new comms system.