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Room Editor: Allow Variable Definition window to sort variables alphabetically #5501

Open Grisgram opened 7 months ago

Grisgram commented 7 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Some objects, especially generic objects, like UI controls from libraries come with quite a huge load of preset variable definitions.

Now the general display strategy of GM is to show the variables in the order they have been created / added through the inheritance chain, however, in the Room Editor, when we set the values for this one specific instance, it would be awesome, if there were additional options to work faster with those variable lists

Describe the solution you'd like

In the Room Editor

Allow this window, to sort the variables displayed. In the Room Editor, the inheritance chain is not really important anymore. If the list of variables gets longer like in the screenshot below (look, there's even a scrollbar! It's like 30 variables defined here), it''s easier to find the one you're looking for when you can sort them.

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Describe alternatives you've considered

No alternatives, just scrolling until you find the one you need. But it costs energy to read all the names closely. If the list were sorted, I could act way quicker

Thanks for reading! kind regards, Gris

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Alphish commented 7 months ago

+1 Also, would be good to have an option to filter Object Variables by name (a search bar or something).

yoshikins commented 7 months ago

+1 The variable definitions interface definitely could use some more love and qol features just like this

Totobal5 commented 6 months ago

+1 Consider