Sorting Block Library in Axe-Edit

VittorioAngelo

VittorioAngelo

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Hello Folks;

Unfortunately all the blocks in my library aren't sorted alphabetically, and I can find no way to sort them. For example, the screen shot below shows my Library -> Recall -> Amplifier menu.

How does one sort these thing alphabetically?

Thank you,
Vittorio
 

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I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than me will be along shortly but when I open my block library by going to the block info it looks like this: 1567457034279.png

just looked and going your way it's sorted too. I have no idea how this happens.
 
it def has SOMETHING to do with that. i renamed a comp block file with an underscore and it put it to the end.
 
Interesting. This seems to be a problem with just that specifically right-click menu. If you use the Block Library function for the specific block they're sorted alpha-numerically.

Screen Shot 2019-09-02 at 1.50.08 PM.png

Probably a bug @Michael Pickens ?

Edit: Here are some tests.

With files on disk:

Code: 
~/Dropbox/Fractal Audio/Axe-Edit III/blocks/Wahwah
❯ ll
total 32
drwxr-xr-x@  6 ian  staff   192B Sep  2 13:48 .
drwxr-xr-x@ 14 ian  staff   448B Jul 22 22:38 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 ian  staff   469B Jan 12  1901 002 Test_20190101_134520.blk
-rw-r--r--@  1 ian  staff   469B Sep  2 13:45 003 Test_20190902_134537.blk
-rw-r--r--@  1 ian  staff   488B Sep  1 09:36 Cantrell-Petrucci-Slash-EVH_20190901_093601.blk
-rw-r--r--@  1 ian  staff   468B Mar 16 15:29 Mu-Tron_20190316_152921.blk

I get:

Screen Shot 2019-09-02 at 1.52.44 PM.png

It appears the name of the file has no impact on the displayed name -- that information is pulled from the contents inside the file. And the datetime stamp on the file also has no bearing. Otherwise 002 Test_20190101_134520.blk should be at one end of the list because I forced its created time stamp to Jan 12, 1901.

So ¯\(°_o)/¯ I don't know what's going on.
 
@mistermikev hmm. My file name changes don't change the displayed names or sort order. As shown in my post above. The file is actually named 003 Test_20190902_134537.blk on disk but the block name was 001 Test and that's what the software displays in the list, for me.
 
Interesting. I changed the 003 Test_20190902_134537.blk file to 004 Test_20190902_134537.blk and re-started Axe-Edit III and I get a different, still seemingly random sort order for this list:

Screen Shot 2019-09-02 at 1.57.53 PM.png

I would have expected 001 Test to appear after 002 Test if the order was based on reading files, sorted, from disk. And if it was based on the name of the embedded block in the file I would have expected the order to NOT change when renaming the files. But clearly it did because before, when 001 Test's file was named 003 Test_20190902_134537.blk I was getting:

Screen Shot 2019-09-02 at 1.52.44 PM.png
 
The order is definitely tied to the names of the files on disk, but it's not a strict alpha-numeric. I just changed the 001 Test block's file name to 005 Test_20190902_134537.blk and now I get:

Screen Shot 2019-09-02 at 2.02.35 PM.png

Code: 
~/Dropbox/Fractal Audio/Axe-Edit III/blocks/Wahwah
❯ mv 004\ Test_20190902_134537.blk 005\ Test_20190902_134537.blk

~/Dropbox/Fractal Audio/Axe-Edit III/blocks/Wahwah
❯ ll
total 32
drwxr-xr-x@  6 ian  staff   192B Sep  2 14:01 .
drwxr-xr-x@ 14 ian  staff   448B Jul 22 22:38 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 ian  staff   469B Jan 12  1901 002 Test_20190101_134520.blk
-rw-r--r--@  1 ian  staff   469B Sep  2 13:45 005 Test_20190902_134537.blk
-rw-r--r--@  1 ian  staff   488B Sep  1 09:36 Cantrell-Petrucci-Slash-EVH_20190901_093601.blk
-rw-r--r--@  1 ian  staff   468B Mar 16 15:29 Mu-Tron_20190316_152921.blk
 
odd thing is an underscore is a very early char in the ascii chart and that's why I used it... so no idea why it places at the bottom vs top but my guess is reverse order
 
mistermikev said:
odd thing is an underscore is a very early char in the ascii chart and that's why I used it... so no idea why it places at the bottom vs top but my guess is reverse order
Click to expand...
Yea, that's why I used digits. It should be very clear with digit prefixes like that how things will sort if it's alpha-numeric.
 
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1567458566199.png

sorry for the mess (I'll stop now)
(EDIT: I guess underscore in ascii is after caps but before lowercase so... guess it's been a while since I looked at an ascii chart)
 
mistermikev said:
sorry for the mess (I'll stop now)
Click to expand...
Press the Name column header to sort by file name in Windows Explorer. It'll be easier to compare the Axe-Edit list with the file names.

It appears to be working for you! Your named files are displaying in the correct order. So WTF is up with this on OS X?
 
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