Order of appearance device states on control pages and GUI

Are custom states on the GUI and Control pages listed alphabetically by state id or ControlPageLabel? or Both?

Example states:

<state id= "roomName"> <ControlPageLabel>Room Name</ControlPageLabel></State>
<state id= "mainLight"> <ControlPageLabel>Main Light</ControlPageLabel></State>

Will appear (GUI / Control Page: )

mainLight / Main Light
roomName / Room Name

From what I've seen, regardless of how it's ordered in the Devices.xml list, the states are ordered alphabetically... is it by the state id or by ControlPageLabel or both?
If I change the device.xml to:

<state id= "001roomName"> <ControlPageLabel>Room Name</ControlPageLabel></State>
<state id= "002mainLight"> <ControlPageLabel>Main Light</ControlPageLabel></State>

Will it appear (GUI / Control Page):
001roomName / Room Name
002mainLight / Main Light

or would they both need to be formatted?:

<state id= "001roomName"> <ControlPageLabel>001_Room Name</ControlPageLabel></State>
<state id= "002mainLight"> <ControlPageLabel>002_Main Light</ControlPageLabel></State>

If I recall correctly, they will appear in the order that they're listed in the XML--I don't think Indigo sorts them at all. This is a sample menu from one of my plugins.

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Note to self: those should probably be reordered...

[jay (support)]

If I recall correctly, they will appear in the order that they're listed in the XML

Correct.

So is it just on the main page of the indigo GUI where custom device states are listed alphabetically? That's good. I was afraid I was going to have to name states numerically to get them in order.... I guess I only need to do that if I want them in order on the Indigo main page GUI

Thank you Dave & Jay

[jay (support)]

So is it just on the main page of the indigo GUI where custom device states are listed alphabetically? That's good. I was afraid I was going to have to name states numerically to get them in order.... I guess I only need to do that if I want them in order on the Indigo main page GUI

Yeah, I don't think we explicitly do it, but rather that's an automatic feature of the Cocoa list view we use to display states. There is probably a configuration switch that automatically keeps the list sorted that we didn't turn off or something.