Re: Folder Actions: specific complaints please
Re: Folder Actions: specific complaints please
- Subject: Re: Folder Actions: specific complaints please
- From: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 19:31:40 +0200
At 15:20 +0200 UTC, on 2004/05/27, Axel Luttgens wrote:
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At the beginning of this year, Mark Butler encountered problems while
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renaming items within a folder having folder action(s) attached. [1]
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It appeared that renaming an item triggers two consecutive events, i.e.
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"removing folder items" and "adding folder items".
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As a result, it proved extremely hard to simultaneously handle item
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renamings as well as true add/removes within a single folder.
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The conclusion was thus that it would be handy to have a distinguished
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event for item renamings, with its companion "on renaming folder
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items..." handler.
I missed that thread. Sorry if this point was made already, but: it seems
more like "on removing" and "on adding" behave as if they are an "on
changing" event, and I think you run into the same trouble when for example
you just "touch" a file (changing its modification date) or change its label
index, etc. Isn't that something that should simply considered to be a bug?
And if so, shouldn't it be fixed, and should then not an "on changing" event
be added (or even with an optional paramter so as to allow for "on changing
name", on changing "label index", etc.) for those who _want_ to have
something happen in that case?
--
Sander Tekelenburg, <
http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
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