Re: getting a file list in sorted order
Re: getting a file list in sorted order
- Subject: Re: getting a file list in sorted order
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:33:40 -0700
On 8/19/02 4:23 AM, "has" <email@hidden> wrote:
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No, really; most Finder scripting stuff seems to work just fine (if a bit
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slowly on OS8/9). Considering that a lot of AppleScript and AS-related
>
stuff is buggy as anthills, this is not a bad track record.<g>
I have to weigh in here. There are a lot of pre-OS X AS versions out there.
Many of them have a LOT wrong with the Finder's AppleScripting. Pre- OS X, I
eventually gave up on the Finder completely, as Steven did, and used Akua or
Jon's for everything, because they just worked.
The biggest problem I found with the classic Finder was in moving and
copying files, worse when re-naming was also required. The Finder would take
so long to return a result that the next line of code would move on and find
no file to work with, and error or give a wrong result. This is
unacceptable. Generally, AppleScript doesn't work this way - it waits for a
result before moving on. Moving and copying files seemed to be the
exception. This was such a disaster, and so unreliable that I had to give up
on the Finder for it. Jon's and Akua did it just find, Akua being able to do
a simultaneous renaming.
It is a pleasure (and a relief since the osaxen don't exist here) to find
that this is not a problem in OS X, where i have made good friends with the
Finder. As has says, the Finder has a great, logical Object Model (thanks,
Cal) so it's a pleasure to use when you know you can depend on it.
The other big problem in many versions of classic AS was simply trying to
get all the items of a large folder; and with recursion - forget it. The
script would just fold up and die. I don't know if this may have improved in
later versions of OS 9: I had given up on it long before. 'list folder'
always worked, and Akua's 'the entries in' worked even better, and is much
more versatile. In OS X, I miss all the parameters of Akua's 'the entries
in' but otherwise am managing fine here. I haven't dared 'entire contents'
but I thought I'd read that even that was improved in that it didn't give
false results any more - or have I got that wrong? In any case, since
'process' returned with OS 10.1, I'm managing all right with the OS X Finder
and have begun to forget the previous traumas.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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