Colored Addon Titles

[merlight]

Two questions I thought I'd find answered somewhere, but haven't.

1. Has it been pointed out to ZOS that they should sort addon titles (in addon enabling page) stripped from markup? I hate it when Guild Search Store (blue) precedes BestFriends (purple) because of the color. They're also cutting the string length disrespecting markup, so if you have an icon with long filename, they break it in the middle, and you get white rectangle instead.

2. If they're not going to fix it, do you think it's possible to establish a convention that would make specially titled addons sort correctly by a few initial characters at least? The trick would be to (ab)use the |c escape - put a sorting key to it instead of hexcolor (the parser doesn't care) - and place it before the desired color. Like this:

Title: |cBestFr|c9966ffBestFriends (example)

[Garkin]

If it is enough to have sorted ingame addons list:

ZO_PreHook(ZO_AddOnManager, "SortScrollList",
   function(self)
      local scrollData = ZO_ScrollList_GetDataList(self.list)
 
      local function SortEntries(entry1, entry2)
         local value1 = (entry1.data.addOnName):gsub("|c%w%w%w%w%w%w", ""):gsub("|r", ""):lower() 
         local value2 = (entry2.data.addOnName):gsub("|c%w%w%w%w%w%w", ""):gsub("|r", ""):lower()
 
         if value1 == value2 then
            return (entry1.data.addOnFileName):lower() < (entry2.data.addOnFileName):lower()
         else
            return value1 < value2
         end
      end
      table.sort(scrollData, SortEntries)
 
      return true
   end)

Warning: Spoiler

[Garkin]

Addon manager on PTS 1.5.0 removes color codes for sorting purposes:

EsoUI\Common\ZO_AddOnManager\ZO_AddOnManager.lua, line 413:

local addOnSortName = title:gsub("|c%x%x%x%x%x%x", "")

[merlight]

Nice, glad I abandoned the hacky idea in 2. Btw, does it remove |texture tags, too?

[Garkin]

Originally Posted by merlight Nice, glad I abandoned the hacky idea in 2. Btw, does it remove |texture tags, too?

No, it removes only color start tag |c??????, nothing else.

[ZOS_ChipHilseberg]

Is texture markup commonly used in add-on titles? I could push to add some code for this release to strip that off the front as well if you all think it would be worthwhile.

[Garkin]

Originally Posted by ZOS_ChipHilseberg Is texture markup commonly used in add-on titles? I could push to add some code for this release to strip that off the front as well if you all think it would be worthwhile.

No, I have never seen anything else then color codes in addon title. But if you want to break sorting on purpose - for example if you want your addon listed first, you can come up with this method.

[merlight]

Originally Posted by ZOS_ChipHilseberg Is texture markup commonly used in add-on titles? I could push to add some code for this release to strip that off the front as well if you all think it would be worthwhile.

No, haven't seen any. I tried using it in one of my unreleased addons, purely out of curiosity, and I actually placed it after the title. As markup is not handled specially, it takes up precious character space, and is prone to being broken in half. So it's probably not worth removing it for sorting, without much more complex handling for display - reading texture width instead of string width for truncation. If anything, there could be a special "favicon" manifest directive and column for icons.

But I have another request more related to the original topic. Some addons have the whole title colored (sometimes in multiple colors), preventing them from being dimmed when they're disabled. Could you add some kind of darkening to disabled addon titles? Like this:

local function dimColor(r, g, b)
    local dr = 0.6 * tonumber(r, 16)
    local dg = 0.6 * tonumber(g, 16)
    local db = 0.6 * tonumber(b, 16)
    return string.format("|c%02x%02x%02x", dr, dg, db)
end
local dimmedTitle = title:gsub("|c(%x%x)(%x%x)(%x%x)", dimColor)

[ZOS_ChipHilseberg]

The add-on list will now only show color markup when the add-on is enabled. The other cases will show the disabled or error colors. Hopefully we can get it into this coming update.