Ordering bookcases
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 5:04 am
I'm looking for tips and/or divine intervention to help my librarian character order the bookcases in their library.
After building a number of bookcases in a single room, I wanted to label each bookcase with a category heading, and to have the categories proceed alphabetically. But I couldn't find any reliable way to figure out which bookcase I was labelling (the paper label "Change object description" menu doesn't display the bookcases contents, and doesn't seem to have them in the same order as the "Objects" view), so I settled for just labelling them in a random (non-alphabetical) order.
Now I am having a similar (but more circumventable) problem storing notes in the bookcases. Because they all already have a couple of notes in them, when I store notes from my inventory, every bookcases is listed as "bookcase (2000) - note, note, note *", so that it is hard to tell which is which. Happily, here they do appear in a reliable order in the "Store into" menu (namely, the reverse of the order they appear in the "Objects" view!), and it is also possible to make a particular bookcase stand out in the "Store into" menu by putting some weird non-note item in it first.
I guess what I'm asking is:
(1) Is there some easy way around these problems (particularly the first problem) that I'm missing?
(2) If not, would it be possible to make objects appear on the "Change object description" menu and the "Store into" menu in the same order as they do in the "Objects" view?
(3) Is it possible to have a demiurge from one or another of the OOC Departments re-order the bookcases in my library so that they are alphabetical by object description?
After building a number of bookcases in a single room, I wanted to label each bookcase with a category heading, and to have the categories proceed alphabetically. But I couldn't find any reliable way to figure out which bookcase I was labelling (the paper label "Change object description" menu doesn't display the bookcases contents, and doesn't seem to have them in the same order as the "Objects" view), so I settled for just labelling them in a random (non-alphabetical) order.
Now I am having a similar (but more circumventable) problem storing notes in the bookcases. Because they all already have a couple of notes in them, when I store notes from my inventory, every bookcases is listed as "bookcase (2000) - note, note, note *", so that it is hard to tell which is which. Happily, here they do appear in a reliable order in the "Store into" menu (namely, the reverse of the order they appear in the "Objects" view!), and it is also possible to make a particular bookcase stand out in the "Store into" menu by putting some weird non-note item in it first.
I guess what I'm asking is:
(1) Is there some easy way around these problems (particularly the first problem) that I'm missing?
(2) If not, would it be possible to make objects appear on the "Change object description" menu and the "Store into" menu in the same order as they do in the "Objects" view?
(3) Is it possible to have a demiurge from one or another of the OOC Departments re-order the bookcases in my library so that they are alphabetical by object description?
