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.