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[yell0wtulipz]

Is it possible for your games to be in alphebetic order under MXM?  I have been searching on ths with no luck.  Any info would be helpful, I know you can manually edit the .xml file to do it but the next time you add a game and refresh the .xml it puts them all out of order again.  When I am speaking games I am speaking about xbox games.

Thanks in advance

-yell0w

[flattspott]

Y>Configure>AutoMenu>Sort By Title = Yes

[yell0wtulipz]

I have tried that and it's still not working. Is it possibly a problem with the skin I am using?

-yell0w

[flattspott]

Do you have you're menus defined manually in a MXM.xml file.

[pelago]

You need something like the following in a menu.xml:

CODE

title       f:\games

Now I have a question. Why can't I sort items alphabetically by title in the root menu? If my menu.xml is:

CODE

title    f:\games

ie the same as above but the games listed in the root menu not a submenu, they are not sorted alphabetically by title. Any ideas?

[koldfuzion]

you really dont want to use

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<endsort />

the purpose of this is to "stop" the sorting.. and is not to be used as a closing tag.

[pelago]

I thought it was used to deliminate which bits you want sorted and which bits you didn't. In my full menu.xml I have a mixture of manually added items (which I want in a specific order), and autodir items (which I want sorted manually). I have been 'wrapping' the autodir items with <sortfield>title</sortfield> and <endsort />, and it seems to do what I want it to, apart from this problem of using autodir in the root menu.

I'll experiment more later.

This post has been edited by pelago on May 27 2004, 09:47 AM

[pelago]

I've now played with this on my Xbox and removing the <endsort /> doesn't appear to make a difference. A menu.xml containing:

CODE

title   f:\games

is not sorted, but a menu.xml containing:

CODE

title      f:\games

is sorted.

Any ideas? I'd really like to have my main games listed directly in the root menu.

[koldfuzion]

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Any ideas? I'd really like to have my main games listed directly in the root menu.

That wasnt your original question  if you want your game listed on the main menu,  just remove the SUBMENU tags.

[pelago]

EDIT: double post

This post has been edited by pelago on May 29 2004, 05:51 PM

[pelago]

Maybe I'm not being clear or something, but when I said I wanted my games listed in the root menu, I meant I wanted them listed in the root menu sorted in alphabetical order. If I remove the <submenu> tags then they are no longer sorted.

Surely someone else can confirm this?

[BenJeremy]

Well, this may be a bug. I'll add it to my list of things to check.

SortField not working on the root menu.

[yell0wtulipz]

Well I have added the following

<menu>
 <submenu>
    <title>Games</title>
    <sortfield>title</sortfield>
    <item><autodir recurse="false">f:\games</autodir></item>
 </submenu>
</menu>


and it's working so thanks pelago