Re: Sorting finder windows by name, date etc.
Re: Sorting finder windows by name, date etc.
- Subject: Re: Sorting finder windows by name, date etc.
- From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:02:39 -0400
- Organization: [very little]
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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 16:17:35 -0600
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To: email@hidden
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From: David Crowe <email@hidden>
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Subject: Sorting finder windows by name, date etc.
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I thought I should be able to:
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tell application "Finder"
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tell window of folder "Applications" of startup disk
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open
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set current view to list view
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-- Next line gets an error
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set sort column of list view options to modification
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date column
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end tell
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end tell
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But, I get an error when trying to set the sort column. This may be
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because list view options are r/o. So, I'm assuming there must be
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another way to control this, but I just can't find it.
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Applescript in a nutshell implies that:
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sort files of folder "Applications" of startup disk by modification date
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should work. On OS 9 it just produces a sorted list (i.e. doesn't
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sort the window). And on Mac OS X I just get an error.
tell window 1 of application "Finder"
set {view, sort direction} to {3, normal}
end tell
Marc K. Myers <email@hidden>
http://AppleScriptsToGo.com
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[7/26/02 12:02:18 AM]
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