Grid

[Shania]

Im trying to implement click heals, and Im using Grid and downloaded also gridcustomlayouts, I cannot see anywhere how I am meant too set Grid to sort my party alphabetically. Does anyone know how you do it in Grid ?

I looked at pitbull but thats not for me.

Or is there any simple uinit frame mode I can use that lets sorting alphabetically ?

[ashlor]

There is a couple of way to go about doing what you want , but the easiest if you do not plan on pvping is to open grid and click on custom layout create a new layout and name it what ever you like in the big box you will type
order = Name save and exit your toons should be in the order you want them to be.

[Ualaa]

A simple alphabetical sort:

sortMethod=name



To display your toons and nothing else:

ToonA,ToonB,ToonC,ToonD,ToonE;sortMethod = "LIST"
n1;NOR
n2;NOR
n3;NOR
n4;NOR
n5;NOR



To display your toons in column one, and the rest of the raid in columns two through eight, each sorted alphabetically:

ToonA,ToonB,ToonC,ToonD,ToonE;Name
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8;5/8;Name;NR

[Shania]

There is a couple of way to go about doing what you want , but the easiest if you do not plan on pvping is to open grid and click on custom layout create a new layout and name it what ever you like in the big box you will type
order = Name save and exit your toons should be in the order you want them to be.


Yes but there is nowhere that reads, custom layout to click.

Under layouts has solo, party, 10 player, 25 player, bg and arena, no option anywhere for custom.

Ive downloaded custom layouts, have it enabled in wow addons, just in grid itself there is nothing for custom layouts thats visible

[Ualaa]

If you have both Grid and GridCustomLayouts, then on the main Grid page.

Above the options for: Frame, Layout, Profiles, Status and Debugging...
ie, in the top left of the Grid Frame, there should be a horizontal button that reads Custom Layouts.

[Shania]

Yep trust me its not there.

Im using, http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/grid.aspx

and customlayouts http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/gridcustomlayouts.aspx

Last layouts was updated 5 months ago, maybe it doesnt function with latest grid ?

I exited wow etc do usual way of adding mods, its there under addons in wow interface and enabled, its just not showing inside grid itself anything for custom layouts.

Frame, Indicators, Layout, Status, Profiles and Debugging only is there.

[MiRai]

Using the download links you have provided I just installed Grid and GridCustomLayouts. This is the result:


http://malice.ws/bin/images/gclbutton.png

[Shania]

Yep and its not there lol

I look http://s258.photobucket.com/albums/hh268/V9_Junkie/?action=view&current=grid.jpg

[Shania]

I have somehow downloaded the wrong version of the layouts re done it and now its there, so embrassed.. I make a red tomato look pink.

Thank you kindly for the responses and assistance. /blush

[MiRai]

Haha

Glad it all worked out.

[Shania]

Im such an idiot lol, can we delete the embarassing thread ? :P

Again thank you, all kindly.
A simple alphabetical sort:

sortMethod=name

is what I went with for now :)

[Ualaa]

If you plan on doing battlegrounds or raids...
I'd go with an actual grid, rather than a straight alphabetical sort.

The sort you have, will get you either a single row or a single column.
Which won't work all that well, when you have 25 or 40 players in the raid.

[Shania]

Umm, I set on each window in grid sortMethod=name but on the 5th window slot, my priests window, its not same order as it is on the other 4 windows.

Why could that be ?

And yes I do plan too BG as I did it alot before hand and enjoyed it immensley on the mages.

[Ualaa]

Try:
order=NAME;

This should be an alphabetical sort, across all windows.
I haven't used a straight alphabetical sort in a while, but this is the correct format.



I'll recommend the custom layout, with more control:
ToonA,ToonB,ToonC,ToonD,ToonE,ToonF,Etc;NAME
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8;5/8;NAME;NR

List all of your toons, across all teams, on line one.
Separate each with a comma, no spaces anywhere.
End in semi-colon and in caps NAME.
This is column one, because it is line one of our custom layout.
I have thirty-seven names on this line, but because I five-box no more than five will be on at once.

Line two specifies including toons who are in groups 1-8.
Which covers solo play, party play, 10-man's, 15-man's, 25-man's and the 40-man raids.
The 5/8, tells Grid to display five rows deep and eight columns across; ie, you have a Grid instead of a rather long row or column, as the straight alphabetical sort would get you.
The semi-colon and in caps NAME, also sorts everything alphabetically.
Finally the NR stands for No Repeating; meaning since your toons are already displayed in the first column, they will not also appear in the subsequent columns/rows.

My custom layout does not display Pets.
There was a modification for displaying Pets, but the addon author has disabled comments for the addon, so unfortunately I'm not sure what the command for pets is.

[Shania]

Try:
order=NAME;

This should be an alphabetical sort, across all windows.
I haven't used a straight alphabetical sort in a while, but this is the correct format.



I'll recommend the custom layout, with more control:
ToonA,ToonB,ToonC,ToonD,ToonE,ToonF,Etc;NAME
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8;5/8;NAME;NR

List all of your toons, across all teams, on line one.
Separate each with a comma, no spaces anywhere.
End in semi-colon and in caps NAME.
This is column one, because it is line one of our custom layout.
I have thirty-seven names on this line, but because I five-box no more than five will be on at once.

Line two specifies including toons who are in groups 1-8.
Which covers solo play, party play, 10-man's, 15-man's, 25-man's and the 40-man raids.
The 5/8, tells Grid to display five rows deep and eight columns across; ie, you have a Grid instead of a rather long row or column, as the straight alphabetical sort would get you.
The semi-colon and in caps NAME, also sorts everything alphabetically.
Finally the NR stands for No Repeating; meaning since your toons are already displayed in the first column, they will not also appear in the subsequent columns/rows.

My custom layout does not display Pets.
There was a modification for displaying Pets, but the addon author has disabled comments for the addon, so unfortunately I'm not sure what the command for pets is.


Thank You Ualaa, that worked and your explanation above was well written, easy to comprehend, now to finish too 85 almost there, then onto healing stuff, cheers :)