Sorting save games

[MatthiasKunnen]

Currently the order of the saves in the load menu is quite confusing. It appears to me that the entries are alphabetically sorted however the naming does not work well with that fact.

Perhaps the saves could be sorted by the save count parameter. Alternatively the format could be changed from {name} {progress}% {saveIndex} to {name} {saveIndex} {progress}% where preferably the saveIndex is padded with 0's to make 3 into 003.

I see that the code suggest that the data is read in order but that does not seem to be the case for me.

Vindicta/src/UI/InGameMenu/InGameMenuTabSave.sqf

Lines 106 to 128 in 50ed6b6

	METHOD(receiveRecordData)
	params [P_THISOBJECT, P_ARRAY("_recordData")];
	OOP_INFO_0("RECEIVE RECORD DATA:");
	{
	OOP_INFO_1(" %1", _x);
	} forEach _recordData;
	// Unpack serialized data
	pr _recordDataLocal = _recordData apply
	{
	_x params ["_recordName", "_headerSerial", "_errors"];
	pr _header = NEW("SaveGameHeader", []);
	DESERIALIZE_ALL(_header, _headerSerial);
	[_recordName, _header, _errors];
	};
	// They are in order of when they were created so reverse them so we get newest at the top
	reverse _recordDataLocal;
	T_CALLM0("clearRecordData");
	T_SETV("recordData", _recordDataLocal);
	T_CALLM0("updateListbox");
	ENDMETHOD;

[Sparker95]

Hi, yes it was in my plan to add better sorting at some point. Starting from arma 2.00 there is this command:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/systemTime
So now we have access to the system date and time. We should save it to the saved game and sort by that value. I hope I can do this at some point.

[MatthiasKunnen]

Would a temporary fix, aka changing the format of the file, be in order or do you prefer to just implement it properly later down the line?

[Sparker95]

It will require some change of save game header layout (in SQF side) but due to save game versioning we use in the code it's not a big issue, it can be done.