vertex group sort operator, access from the vgroup panel, sintels mesh has 144 vertex groups which got quite tedious to look through.

2 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/blenlib/BLI_listbase.h b/source/blender/blenlib/BLI_listbase.h
index f4841762227..79f7fb90091 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenlib/BLI_listbase.h
+++ b/source/blender/blenlib/BLI_listbase.h
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ void BLI_insertlink(struct ListBase *listbase, void *vprevlink, void *vnewlink);
 void *BLI_findlink(struct ListBase *listbase, int number);
 int BLI_findindex(struct ListBase *listbase, void *vlink);
 void *BLI_findstring(struct ListBase *listbase, const char *id, int offset);
+int BLI_findstringindex(struct ListBase *listbase, const char *id, int offset);
 void BLI_freelistN(struct ListBase *listbase);
 void BLI_addtail(struct ListBase *listbase, void *vlink);
 void BLI_remlink(struct ListBase *listbase, void *vlink);
diff --git a/source/blender/blenlib/intern/listbase.c b/source/blender/blenlib/intern/listbase.c
index 6626896d266..5c43c2440aa 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenlib/intern/listbase.c
+++ b/source/blender/blenlib/intern/listbase.c
@@ -363,6 +363,27 @@ void *BLI_findstring(ListBase *listbase, const char *id, int offset)
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+int BLI_findstringindex(ListBase *listbase, const char *id, int offset)
+{
+	Link *link= NULL;
+	const char *id_iter;
+	int i= 0;
+
+	if (listbase == NULL) return -1;
+
+	link= listbase->first;
+	while (link) {
+		id_iter= ((const char *)link) + offset;
+
+		if(id[0] == id_iter[0] && strcmp(id, id_iter)==0)
+			return i;
+		i++;
+		link= link->next;
+	}
+
+	return -1;
+}
+
 void BLI_duplicatelist(ListBase *list1, const ListBase *list2)
 {
 	struct Link *link1, *link2;