[Ardour-Dev] sort_ports_by_name patch

[Natanael Olaiz]

Hi,

Using ardour with more than 10 in/out ports in a track, the ports order 
is done alphabetically, so the order is: 1,10,11,...,2,...,9 (and figure 
like that in the GUI). So, if you have in the XML (we are trying to do 
things from outside Ardour, like Pau comment some days ago...) a 15 
channels track connected to a bus like this:


    <IO name="Audio 1" id="1105" active="yes" inputs="{}" outputs="{Bus
    1/in 1}{Bus 1/in 2}{Bus 1/in 3}{Bus 1/in 4}{Bus 1/in 5}{Bus 1/in
    6}{Bus 1/in 7}{Bus 1/in 8}{Bus 1/in 9}{Bus 1/in 10}{Bus 1/in 11}{Bus
    1/in 12}{Bus 1/in 13}{Bus 1/in 14}{Bus 1/in 15}"
    gain="1.000000000000" iolimits="1,-1,-1,-1">

    [...]

    <IO name="Bus 1" id="1125" active="yes" inputs="{Audio 1/out
    1}{Audio 1/out 2}{Audio 1/out 3}{Audio 1/out 4}{Audio 1/out 5}{Audio
    1/out 6}{Audio 1/out 7}{Audio 1/out 8}{Audio 1/out 9}{Audio 1/out
    10}{Audio 1/out 11}{Audio 1/out 12}{Audio 1/out 13}{Audio 1/out
    14}{Audio 1/out 15}" outputs="{master/in 1}{master/in 2}"
    gain="1.000000000000" iolimits="-1,-1,-1,-1">

You obtain in the GUI the order: 1,4,5,10,11,12,13,14,15,2,3 (like in 
the screenshot), because of a double alphabetically order... (2 became 
10, and 10 at their time is 4...).

So I made a patch to make the sort routine check for numbers to the end 
of the port name. Is attached, and a test session with those connections.

I have to change the cstdlib atoi for the PBD one, and try to use 
ustrings instead std::strings... but the reverse iterator doesn't work. 
Anyway, it works.


Best regards,
Natanael.
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