From 6df5dcc44a08bea867297ef740b457b99e3ca12e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dvs1
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:18:22 +1000
Subject: Properly sort them.

---
 aataaj.lua | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/aataaj.lua b/aataaj.lua
index b2ea50c..2c6058d 100755
--- a/aataaj.lua
+++ b/aataaj.lua
@@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ if _.runnable('espeak-ng') then speaker = 'espeak-ng' end
 local numbers = {[0]='zero', 'one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five', 'six', 'seven', 'eight', 'nine', 'ten', 'eleven', 'twelve', 'thirteen', 'fourteen', 'fifteen', 'sixteen'}
 
 
+local Names = {}
 local Cards = {}
 local cnt = 0
 
@@ -176,6 +177,7 @@ for  i,l in ipairs(cards.lines) do
 	    local n = f:read('*a'):sub(1, -2)
 	    Cards[n] = {path = l, name = n, devs = {}, captureDevs = {}, playbackDevs = {}, card=i}
 	    cnt = cnt + 1
+	    Names[cnt] = n
 	    if 'Loopback' ~= Cards[n]['name'] then
 		Cards[n]['capture'] = __('ls -d1 ' .. l .. '/pcm[0-9]*c*'):noErr():Do()
 		for  j,c in ipairs(Cards[n]['capture'].lines) do
@@ -213,7 +215,7 @@ for  i,l in ipairs(cards.lines) do
 	end
     end
 end
-table.sort(Cards, function(a, b) return a.card < b.card end)
+--table.sort(Cards, function(a, b) return a.card < b.card end)
 print('')
 io.flush()
 
@@ -268,8 +270,9 @@ print('  being spoken through all at once - ')
     end
     -- TODO - should do a proper "wait for speakers to finish" here.  Have fork(write a file), think that's what :wait(file) does.
     __'sleep 6':Do()
-    for  k,C in pairs(Cards) do
 print('  being spoken through one at a time - ')
+    for  k,n in ipairs(Names) do
+	C = Cards[n]
 	for  j,c in ipairs(C['playbackDevs']) do
 ----	    speak(C.name, nil,                  C.card - 1, 'Device number ' .. C.card - 1 .. ', sub device ' .. C['playbackDevs'][j], false, false, 'device', numbers[C.card - 1], 'sub', numbers[tonumber(C['playbackDevs'][j])])
 	    speak(C.name, C['playbackDevs'][j], C.card - 1, 'Device number ' .. C.card - 1 .. ', sub device ' .. C['playbackDevs'][j], true, false, 'device', numbers[C.card - 1], 'sub', numbers[tonumber(C['playbackDevs'][j])])
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