Inventory Tweaks sorting support

[NovaViper]

Hey, could you possible make the chests be able to be sorted by the Crafting Tweaks/Inventory Tweaks mod?

[rubensworks]

There already is Inventory Tweaks support: https://github.com/CyclopsMC/ColossalChests/blob/master-1.10/src/main/java/org/cyclops/colossalchests/inventory/container/ContainerColossalChest.java#L36

[NovaViper]

Oh, I didn't realize that, but whenever I try to use the middle mouse button to sort, it just pulls the items to fill in empty spaces, not sort the actual items by the default settings.

[rubensworks]

@NovaViper Do you see the invtweaks buttons in the gui? Do those work?

[NovaViper]

I do and yeah, I've tried those as well. I can get it line up vertically and horizontally, but can't get the items to actual sort by their characteristics based in the default settings

[rubensworks]

Try reporting to the Inv Tweaks issue tracker.

[NovaViper]

Just sent the issue to them

[NovaViper]

Hey I just got a response back

Kobata commented 2 hours ago.
From a quick look at that mod, since I'm not very familiar with it, it doesn't appear to be very friendly to the way Inventory Tweaks does sorting -- with the scrollbars there's a big mismatch between what the mod probably knows about (all the items) and what it can actually interact with (what's currently visible).
I don't expect sorting to work well with it at all.

So it seems to be something on this mod's side.

[Kobata]

I'll throw a more detailed thing here: Inventory Tweaks (for reasons including working on non-modded servers) works by sending click commands more or less as-if you physically clicked the mouse (just really fast), so it can only really work on items that are visible on screen, and as such doesn't work very well for things so large they have to resort to scrolling and only showing parts of the contents at a time.

[rubensworks]

@Kobata Does your API provide a way to sort on a custom list of items? If so, I can probably hook that in.

[Kobata]

No, and it's not really about that -- it would know about all the items already if I understand it right (because there's slots) -- but it can't interact with them (because not all of them are visible at the same time)

[NovaViper]

Hey, you might be able to add a sort of checking method that scans the number of visible slots on the screen and with each time you scroll, have the mod execute the checking method again and then send that data to Inventory Tweaks (In theory that is)

[rubensworks]

Ok, in that case it's going to be a wontfix.

@Kobata If you ever would add a custom hook for sorting, let me know ;-)

[Kobata]

@rubensworks There kinda is? You can do what AE does and do your own sorting using the ordering in the API.

Note that like the rest of the API that's only available client-side, so if you want it to actually persist and not just be a local 'remapping' it's up to you to do the client-server communication.