Please sort the block names alpha-numerically in the Blockedit window in the case of nested blocks. [Alpha-numeric sorting] Thank you

Hello - got that, thanks. https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-56612 -Pascal

OK, this is ridiculous. It’s 9 months later… How hard can it be ? I mean, after years of complaining, I was able to get you guys to sort the Block manager (imagine that !), so what could hold you from doing the same in the Blockedit with nested blocks ? Here’s from the latest V7 WIP : [Nested B…

Frankly Pascal, between you and me, this is becoming completely ridiculous. Some fellow in Seattle could put his doughnut down 2 minutes and insert a “sort” command somewhere in the code and get this done. It’s not even a low hanging fruit ; I’d say it will fall by itself in the basket provided y…

OK @pascal , @bobmcneel , I solemnly swear that I will never again post in the Rhino part of this forum if you guys just add an alphanumeric sorting function to the Blockedit dialog. I’m dead serious about this. I’ve been wasting my time with you stubborn old folks for too long anyways. I need …

https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-56612 Has been fixed and will be in the next public Rhino 7.0 WIP.

Great! But… this won’t be the case for Rhino 6? :no_mouth:

Don’t tell me promising to go away is the way to get fixes, because I only just got here! :stuck_out_tongue: While you’re looking at the sorting, any chance you might look into the outright disappearance of some nested blocks after editing too (posted in the link four messages above yours)?

[image] JohnM: https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-56612 Has been fixed and will be in the next public Rhino 7.0 WIP. Sincerely sorry if you had to neglect the kids for that. Anyway, thanks John ! This proves that, with enough motivation, great things can be achieved ! Signin…

Wait! Come back! Your posts are the only antidotes to the sycophants!

Nested block edit : alpha-numeric sorting

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eobet (eobet) September 3, 2020, 2:08pm 4

I mean, keeping everything in the same order every time you open a nested block would be step 1, imo.

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Nested block edit : alpha-numeric sorting

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