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Re: List View Problems


  • Subject: Re: List View Problems
  • From: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 08:33:11 -0800

Luther,

I ran the following script and did not get the same results as you.  The new folder windows looked normal.  The name column width was reasonable.

The script seemed to return the correct results from each command, but the sort direction didn't change, which, I believe, is a known bug.

10.6.5

HTH,

ES


property testFolder : alias "Macintosh HD:Users:edstockly:Desktop:"
property testCount : 0
tell application "Finder"
	activate
	set testCount to testCount + 1
	set testFolderName to "test" & testCount as text
	set testFolder to make new folder at testFolder with properties {name:testFolderName}
	open testFolder
	set winRef to window of testFolder
	-- the window of the test folder is open and in list view
	set sort column of list view options of winRef to name column
	-->Name column
	set sort direction of sort column of list view options of winRef to normal
	-- >Normal
	set sort direction of sort column of list view options of winRef to reversed
	-- >reversed

	--set width of column name column of list view options of winRef to 200
	-->200
	sort direction of sort column of list view options of winRef
	if the result is normal then
		set sort direction of sort column of list view options of winRef to reversed
	else
		set sort direction of sort column of list view options of winRef to reversed

	end if
end tell

On Dec 24, 2010, at 7:17am, Luther Fuller wrote:

> More info on this problem. I created a test folder, then experimented with various list view properties.
> Notice the comments in this script ...
>
> property testFolder : alias "Work_Files:untitled folder"
> tell application "Finder"
> 	activate
> 	set winRef to window of testFolder
> 	-- the window of the test folder is open and in list view
> 	set sort column of list view options of winRef to name column -- OK
> 	set sort direction of sort column of list view options of winRef to normal -- ineffective
> 	set width of column name column of list view options of winRef to 1000 -- ineffective
> 	sort direction of sort column of list view options of winRef -- always reversed = «constant ****srvs»
> end tell
>
> It seems that the display of list view windows in my installation of Snow Leopard is badly broken. All newly created list view windows open with a narrow name column in reversed order and changes are not saved. (But folders created by the previous system installation are OK.)
>
> Is this an AppleScript problem or a system problem?
> And does anyone have any idea about its cause?
>
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