SortOrder

Description:

The SortOrder property determines the next UI element to be placed in a layout. For Name, a simple alphabetic sort is used on the Name property of the child UI elements. For LayoutOrder, a low-to-high sort is used on the GuiObject/LayoutOrder property of child UI elements. If two share the same GuiObject/LayoutOrder, whichever was added sooner to the parent object takes precedence. An easy way to reverse the sorting order is to negate LayoutOrder.

Code Samples

UI Sort Order

This code sample demonstrates sorting data using UIGridStyleLayout/SortOrder and GuiObject/LayoutOrder.

-- Place in a script in a UIListLayout
local uiGridLayout = script.Parent

-- Some data to work with
local scores = {
	["Player1"] = 2048;
	["Ozzypig"] = 1337;
	["Shedletsky"] = 1250;
	["Builderman"] = 1000;  
}

-- Build a scoreboard
for name, score in pairs(scores) do
	local tl = Instance.new("TextLabel")
	tl.Text = name .. ": " .. score
	tl.Parent = script.Parent
	tl.LayoutOrder = -score -- We want higher scores first, so negate for descending order
	tl.Name = name
	tl.Size = UDim2.new(0, 200, 0, 50)
	tl.Parent = uiGridLayout.Parent
end

while true do
	-- The name is the player's name
	uiGridLayout.SortOrder = Enum.SortOrder.Name
	uiGridLayout:ApplyLayout()
	wait(2)
	-- Since we set the LayoutOrder to the score, this will sort by descending score!
	uiGridLayout.SortOrder = Enum.SortOrder.LayoutOrder
	uiGridLayout:ApplyLayout()
	wait(2)
end