interactive ware help: sorting of wares (e.g. axes)

[Kristin]

In the new amazing interactive ware help, there could be one more enhancement:

The similar wares, that have a sorting (e.g. all weapons and armour, ration/snack/meal) could be shown in the right order. In my opinion, the most intuitive order would be to show the smallest one (e.g. ration) above, thereunder the second-smallest (e.g. snack) etc. and the biggest item (e.g. meal) at the bottom. This would be a good display especially because also the enhanced buildings are shown in a vertical order with the smallest above.

The order should be determined by the using of the wares. For example, an Atlantean soldier who is trained in a Dungeon is trained to attack level 1 with a steel trident, to attack level 2 with a double trident, to attack level 3 with a heavy double trident (information is in the conf-file of the building dungeon).

[SirVer (sirver)]

Such an ordering is implemented ingame and defined in the tribe conf file; this one could be used for clever ordering.

[kaputtnik (franku)]

Such an ordering for wares isn't possible at the moment, because we do not read the conf files directly anymore. The currently used binary 'wl_map_object_info' creates json files which do not give any of the mentioned information. E.g it is not possible to have a category of a ware: If it is a ware for military (spear, trident, armor, ...), food (bread, meal, beer, wine, ...), buildings (log, stone, ...).

So to fix this we need more analyzes in wl_map_object_info and store more information in the created json files.

I am not sure if this is worth the work, since such information is available in the game help now.

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

We could do the same as I suggested in:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/widelands-website/+bug/336021/comments/17

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Issue moved to https://github.com/widelands/widelands-website/issues/200