LDInstruction

[Stefan Frenz]

I would wish for a possibility to "sort" eventually parts by myself to get a space efficient layout.

Thanks for your input. As everything is generated into an OpenDocument Draw file, one could re-sort as needed afterwards, but this is kind of painful for many parts. I was thinking of the sorting categories width, height, color, LDraw part number, LDraw part description; so there could be an option to define in which order those categories should be applied.

Do you have an idea how to express your sorting wish?

I could even think of a small source code API like this:

Code:

int diff=o1.getColId()-o2.getColId();
if (diff!=0) return diff;
String o1d=o1.getDescription(ctx);
String o2d=o2.getDescription(ctx);
if (o1d!=null && o2d!=null) return o1.getDescription(ctx).compareTo(o2.getDescription(ctx));
return o1.getName().compareTo(o2.getName());

which is the sorting algorithm for the pli (meaning: first sort by color id, then by description, then by LDraw id)... But I have the strong feeling that this would be over-engineering and so it would not really be usefull.