ICE preset manager 'Tool'-tab - how to alphabetize?

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druitre
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ICE preset manager 'Tool'-tab - how to alphabetize?

Post by druitre » 22 Aug 2011, 14:16

Hi,

as the title says - my tool-tab in the ICE preset manager is a bit of a mess now, making it hard to have a clear idea of what nodes I have. The Task-tab is neatly organized by alphabet, and updates correctly if I make any changes to a compound, but the Tool-tab runs a list from a-z, then starts again from a-z with another bunch of nodes, and then again with another bunch.

Is there a way to clean this up? Refresh doesn't work, clean restart of SI doesn't help.

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Re: ICE preset manager 'Tool'-tab - how to alphabetize?

Post by Hirazi Blue » 22 Aug 2011, 14:28

That sounds strange.
Isn't the ICE Preset Manager merely alphabetizing per (sub)category?
And wouldn't adding some extra tool categories for specific compounds help?
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Re: ICE preset manager 'Tool'-tab - how to alphabetize?

Post by druitre » 22 Aug 2011, 20:32

Adding extra categories may be what has caused the mess in the first place. I'm not sure (I could start up with no workgroup connected just to try and see what happens, I always add compounds or addons to my workgroup).

What does it look like for you? Are all tools listed a-z?

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Re: ICE preset manager 'Tool'-tab - how to alphabetize?

Post by druitre » 23 Aug 2011, 19:57

I tried and see what happens if I disconnect my workgroup (= all my extra compounds). Screencap of preset manager in a clean install:
cleanxsi.jpg
This is 99% alphabetical, only the 'syflex'-tool appears out of order (or 'topology', depends on how you want to look at it)

Then after connecting to my workgroup (= adding lots of downloaded compounds):
withworkgroup.jpg
Everything's inserted between 'topology' and 'syflex', in a rather random way.

Is this just my experience? I would expect there to be a way to manually organize/alphabetize/sort the order of items in this list. Or for SI to alphabetize by default. Its a mess now, trying to see what's there.
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