GUI for changing sorting order

[wchristian]

Going through the config setting each time i want to change that is fairly annoying, and at different times i need different modes, i.e. when surveying for what's in need of handling soon, and for finding the best next mine spot. So being able to change sorting mode directly ingame would be nice.

[narc0tiq]

A bit of GUI for quick-changing sort orders would definitely be nice; I was actually thinking it would work best as a drop-down, possibly hidden unless a button is clicked. But, do want.

[wchristian]

I tried looking at the code to see if i implement it, but i found it's a little more tricky than expected. Apparently the list of values is stored only in the mod config segment, and i cannot figure out how the api allows accessing that in real time. If it can be done, the button could simply increment an integer which is applied as an offset after the position of the current setting in the list of values is determined. This should probably also be displayed and have a reset button, but altogether it would add 3 gui elements to allow controlling an arbitrarily big sort mode list.

[narc0tiq]

The solution feels like it should be fairly simple: keep the values in a defines.lua that both the runtime and settings stage can require to be able to generate the respective UIs

[narc0tiq]

NB: We still need to enumerate the values at runtime to be able to produce a comparator that actually applies the order, so the above would be good to avoid repetition; we can also have a runtime check that all order-by options actually have a comparator, which currently is not something we (can) check.