Script to Auto-alphabetize armor upon entering equip menu?

[westingtyler06]

I need a snippet of code that I can throw into my equipment menu script that would automatically alphabetize the Armor before it is drawn in the list upon entering the menu.

I am actually using the armor menu as a sort of in-game character phonebook, and I want the person name entries (each person is a piece of armor technically) to stay alphabetical in the list no matter in what order you encounter the characters in the game. Anybody have a simple, elegant solution for this I can just plug in?

 

[ZenVirZan]

Add this above the @data.push(nil) in Window_EquipItem

    @data.sort! {|x,y| y.name <=> x.name if x != nil and y != nil }

    @data.reverse

This is untested, but should work :D

 

[ForeverZer0]

[rgss]@data = [nil] + @data.compact.sort {|a, b| a.name <=> b.name }
[/rgss]

 

[westingtyler06]

Thanks for the help, guys! The second script called an error about icon.name or something in my script, (probably my script), but the first one worked.

This worked perfectly:

 @data.sort! {|x,y| x.name <=> y.name if x != nil and y != nil }

I didn't have to reverse the code once I switched the x.name and y.name.

A weird thing, though. The names are alphabetized now, A to Z. But one name, G. Rat (for 'Giant Rat') shows up at the end of the list. Why does the period after the G make it show up at the end?

Thanks again for your help, guys!