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COMPACT

Hi Jorge,

 

Why is the library order in Control Panel different to the library listing order in Schematic Capture?

 

For instance, linear-technologies.lbr appears above linear.lbr in the Control Panel and linear.lbr appears above linear-technologies.lbr in Schematic Capture.

 

Is there an option so that they both appear in the correct alphabetical order?

 

Have a good day

 

Compact

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    On 1/31/2016 3:25 PM, COMPACT wrote:

    Hi Jorge,

     

    Why is the library order in Control Panel different to the library

    listing order in Schematic Capture?

     

    For instance, linear-technologies.lbr appears above linear.lbr in the

    Control Panel and linear.lbr appears above linear-technologies.lbr in

    Schematic Capture.

     

    Is there an option so that they both appear in the correct alphabetical

    order?

     

    Hi Compact,

     

    I think I know what happened, it's happened to me before too.

     

    In the control panel look at the top of the left side. Above all of the

    trees you'll see an item that says Name and it has a small arrow in it.

    If you accidentally click on it, you'll notice the arrow direction

    changes and the alphabetical order reverses.

     

    The Add dialog has the same feature, make sure that in both dialogs the

    arrows are pointing the same way.

     

    hth,

    Jorge Garcia

     

     

     

  • 0 in reply to autodeskguest

    Hi Jorge,

     

    Thanks but that's not the cause.

    Here's a screen shot of supposedly forward alphabetical order.

    See how altera.lbr is below rather than above all of the altera-*.lbr entries.

    image

     

    And here it is in reverse alphabetical order (altera.lbr should be at the bottom on the list).

    image

     

    It first glance it appears to me that the sorting algorithm is a bit screwy with regards to evaluating the value of substring).

    (i.e. since altera is shorter than altera- and is given a higher value thus is placed lower in the ordered list.)

     

    Also, I noticed some special ordering logic when it comes the main folders as they are not in alphabetical order irrespective of the sort order.

    I assume this was done as a convenience feature.

     

    imageimage

     

    Cheers

     

    Compact.

  • 0 in reply to COMPACT

    On 01/02/16 23:40, COMPACT wrote:

    It first glance it appears to me that the sorting algorithm is a bit

    screwy with regards to evaluating the value of substring).

    (i.e. since altera is shorter than altera- and is given a higher value

    thus is placed lower in the ordered list.)

     

    I don't know if this is the case here but often this is caused by

    language support. The rules for sorting depend on the locale setting.

    The list of libraries in use is just a list of names so is likely to use

    your system national locale, whereas the browser in the control panel is

    (kind of) a file view, so it should use the file system locale. These

    may not be the same.

     

    Of course, there's also other possibilities. I've noticed, for example,

    that GTK implements inconsistent case sensitivity between the sorting of

    a list and the quick find within that list. I know Eagle uses Qt but it

    wouldn't surprise me at all if that had similar quirks.