DisplayUtil.sortDisplayChildren now uses ArrayUtil.stableSort

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://src.earth.threerings.net/nenya/trunk@460 ed5b42cb-e716-0410-a449-f6a68f950b19

src/as/com/threerings/flash/DisplayUtil.as

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 package com.threerings.flash {
 
+import com.threerings.util.ArrayUtil;
 import com.threerings.util.ClassUtil;
 
 import flash.display.DisplayObject;
@@ -31,16 +32,31 @@ import flash.geom.Rectangle;
 public class DisplayUtil
 {
     /**
-     * Quicksorts container's children.
+     * Sorts a container's children, using ArrayUtil.stableSort.
      *
      * comp is a function that takes two DisplayObjects, and returns int -1 if the first
      * object should appear before the second in the container, 1 if it should appear after,
-     * and 0 if the order does not matter. (Since quicksort is not a stable sort algorithm,
-     * returning 0 in the compare function is equivalent to returning -1).
+     * and 0 if the order does not matter.
      */
     public static function sortDisplayChildren (container :DisplayObjectContainer, comp :Function) :void
     {
-        qsortDisplayChildren(container, 0, container.numChildren - 1, comp);
+        var numChildren :int = container.numChildren;
+        var children :Array = new Array(numChildren);
+
+        // pull the display children into an array.
+        // guess that removing children from the end of a DisplayObjectContainer
+        // is more efficient than removing them from the beginning.
+        for (var i :int = numChildren - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
+            children[i] = container.removeChildAt(i);
+        }
+
+        // stable sort the array
+        ArrayUtil.stableSort(children, comp);
+
+        // add children back to the container
+        for each (var child :DisplayObject in children) {
+            container.addChild(child);
+        }
     }
 
     /**