changing order in graphs

[Gerd Mueller]

Hi,

are you sure? I thought it' sorted by the hostname. So sorting by
putting numbers in front of the hostnames (r01_main_router,
s01_core_switch, ...) is already possible.

/Gerd 
Am Do, den 13.01.2005 schrieb Joe Pruett um 22:53:
> i'd like to affect the layout of things in the circular layout.  i've been 
> looking at the code and i see that it just uses the order that things are 
> sorted by the config reading code.  that got me to thinking that i'd like 
> to be able to group things (routers first, switches, servers, hosts, etc) 
> without splitting everything up into hostgroups.  and that got me to 
> thinking that maybe it would be nice to have a data value for objects to 
> allow sorting to be affected.  i was thinking that just a simple integer 
> value that would take precedence over the main string name.  a missing 
> value would sort at the beginning (like a 0) and equal int values would 
> then use the string.  so putting all switches at level 10 and servers at 
> level 20 would do the right thing.
> 
> does this sound like a useful/interesting idea?  it doesn't look like it 
> should touch too much code.
> 
> ps: i've made patches that fix some of the layout issues with multiple 
> parents.  i'll be sending that along soon.
> 
> 
> 
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