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: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 01:31:57 -0700
On 8/19/02 1:43 PM, "has" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I don't think AS would ever move on while it's waiting for an application
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response, however [it would be a massive, massive AS bug if it did, and a
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shootable offence:]. Unless you explicitly tell it to ignore application
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responses, it will wait until a response is received, or the wait times
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out.
Duplicate/move is the exception. One of the Chrises acknowledged it passing
once, I believe.
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Rather, it sounds like the Finder is returning a new object reference
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before its entirely ready to handle any operations that the user wishes to
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perform using that reference (tantamount to updating the object model used
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by the scripting interface before finishing the actual filesystem changes).
No, it's the other way round.
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(If there's a problem with duplicate [and duplicate and rename] that I'm
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aware of, it's that the process too closely mirrors the way the graphical
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side does it. Which is fine for point-n-click; much less so when you're
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scripting it. But that's a feature [:p], not a bug.)
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Hrm. Is there any specific/documented info on this problem I can go look up
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the stuff you're talking about? I'd quite like to find out more details.
Of course not. This is AppleScript. But maybe Chris will say something.
That's the only documentation you tend to get aside from release notes,
which are hard to find. There haven't been any release notes that said it
was fixed or improved, although there was one when 1.6 came out for OS X to
the effect that 'move' now moves, not duplicates, files from one disk to
another (unlike the UI). They evidently made a lot of changes and
improvements in this area.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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