On Oct 12, 2006, at 3:44 AM, Joel Uckelman wrote:
> I'm presently tring to resolve Bug #1197411, quoted in part here:
>
>> Files do not appear in Alpha order on various file
>> listings (eg "Open" "Start Log" "Save Game" etc).
>> Interestingly, directories do appear sorted properly.
>
> The bug's reporter says this is happening on Linux. Can anyone
> replicate
> this? I use Linux, and I don't see it---but I may not be using the
> same
> Linux distribution or version of VASSAL as the bug reporter.
I would think that this would be an underlying JVM issue, since AFAIK
Vassal doesn't use its own file sorting algorithm in the Choose File
dialogs.
Now, one thing that may be happening is that Linux (and generally
all Unix implementations, except perhaps Darwin?) has a case-sensitive
file system, so that under normal unix operation files will sort with
Uppercase letters in front of lower case letters. For example:
A-file
B-file
E-file
F-file
Z-file
c-file
d-file
h-file
If that is the basis of the user report, then there really isn't
too much that can be done about it, since it is a Linux issue
rather than a Vassal one. I would therefore leave it rather than
try to work around it in some fashion. Especially since there
is a note in the bug report that this only happens with Java 1.4
and not 1.5.
-Tom.
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