[FORGET IT, Don't waste your time] Organizing the Inventory?

[Steamed_Punk]

I have 12 new blocks (end of the day) so to finish up i checked everything was in place but noticed that the objects display in the inventory (creative) but not in an order I can see how to re-arrange. They are not showing in Alphabetical order or by date/hour of creation. I have checked the 3Dmodels.obj files but using a simple text editor and I can't see anything in there concerning name etc that could effect the display order.

My .lua file has them in the order I would like them to be read and displayed by MT but that doesn't seem to be the way it works.

Sure I have ducked :D around by can't find anything that seems to be related.

Is there anything I can do to get the inventory to show my nodes in the order I want them to?
cheers

[joe7575]

Here a simple approach to sort the inventory items in alphabetical order by means of the chat command "/sort":

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minetest.register_chatcommand("sort", {
	description = "Sort the player inventory in alphabetical order",
	func = function(name, param)
		local inv = minetest.get_inventory({type="player", name=name})
		local list = inv:get_list("main")
		table.sort(list, function (a, b)
				local name_a = a:get_name()
				local name_b = b:get_name()
				if name_a == "" and name_b ~= "" then return false end
				if name_a ~= "" and name_b == "" then return true end
				return string.lower(name_a) < string.lower(name_b)
			end)
		inv:set_list("main", list)
	end
})

[Steamed_Punk]

Here a simple approach to sort the inventory items in alphabetical order by means of the chat command "/sort":

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minetest.register_chatcommand("sort", {
	description = "Sort the player inventory in alphabetical order",
	func = function(name, param)
		local inv = minetest.get_inventory({type="player", name=name})
		local list = inv:get_list("main")
		table.sort(list, function (a, b)
				local name_a = a:get_name()
				local name_b = b:get_name()
				if name_a == "" and name_b ~= "" then return false end
				if name_a ~= "" and name_b == "" then return true end
				return string.lower(name_a) < string.lower(name_b)
			end)
		inv:set_list("main", list)
	end
})

Thanks for that it's pretty cool. But I guess I didn't explain myself correctly. It's not what the player has in his personal inventory I want to organize, but what displays in creative when all the blocks are displayed. I am not trying to re-organize everything, just my blocks.

for example:
A full node, three_quarter node, half node and a quarter node (heights). All aligned in that order.

[rubenwardy]

You can use the creative mod to create custom tabs. Also, the order in the creative inventory will probably be alphabetical based on item name or based on registration order, I forget

[Steamed_Punk]

You can use the creative mod to create custom tabs. Also, the order in the creative inventory will probably be alphabetical based on item name or based on registration order, I forget

I had read somewhere about tabs, and forgot, I will dig into that it looks like it could be a good solution.

Thanks

[Steamed_Punk]

Never mind I will stick to just modelling and texturing and just throw stuff at Minetest the best way I can.

@rubenwardy I have tried your modding book but can't make head nor tail of it.
https://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding ... sfinv.html

I managed to add a new tab and change it's name and apart from showing hello world in the example I am lost.
I have also tried rebuilding and renaming the models in the correct order. Nothing, MT just throws them in there without any order 'Alphabetic or other'.

I took a look at the inventory.lua in the creative mod to get some idea. I am just wasting creative time again. Obviously I am wasting other peoples time as well.