Re: Desktop setup script
Re: Desktop setup script
- Subject: Re: Desktop setup script
- From: llee040 via AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 19:54:08 -0500
Please have a look at my blog post.
Wrapping Desktop Icons with AppleScript
<https://prehensileblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/30/wrapping-desktop-icons-with-applescript/>
Sincerely,
Laine Lee
> On Jun 28, 2020, at 9:50 PM, iKel via AppleScript-Users
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> hello!
>
> I’m making a desktop setup script. Is there a way to set the Finder window
> group? By Kind or modification date? I have it sort by kind column but it’s
> nice to have it grouped in sections by kind. Realize I can just take my
> cursor and go up to group in the Finder Toolbar and Click group by kind. But
> it’s just nice to have all the setting done when I run the script.
>
>
> I’m curious, does anyone else have Desktop Setup scripts? And if so, what is
> some advice you can give to a novice scripter as myself? Any ideas I can
> improve my script is much appreciated. My code is below. As always I
> appreciate the help.
>
> set chooseWindowLeft to choose folder
> set chooseWindowRight to choose folder
>
> --in order to take advantage of whole screen, check to see if dock is hidden,
> if not hide dock
> tell application "System Events"
> get autohide of the dock preferences
> if result is false then
> set autohide of dock preferences to true
> end if
> end tell
> --with dock hidden, and folders chosen, two Finder windows will open up and
> be positioned vertically on the left and right side of the desktop
> tell application "Finder"
> (*using container windows maybe a better way to execute this script:*)
> --chooseWindowLeft
> tell the front Finder window
> open chooseWindowLeft
> set the properties to {bounds:{0, 25, 640, 802}, current
> view:list view, toolbar visible:true, statusbar visible:true, pathbar
> visible:true, sidebar width:190}
> end tell
> tell list view options of the front Finder window
> set the properties to {calculates folder sizes:false, shows
> icon preview:true, icon size:small, text size:12, uses relative dates:true,
> sort column:kind column}
> tell column kind column
> set properties to ¬
> {sort direction:normal, width:120, visible:true}
> end tell
> tell column modification date column
> set properties to ¬
> {sort direction:normal, width:120, visible:true}
> end tell
> end tell
> set current view of the front Finder window to list view
> set the current view of the window of every folder of chooseWindowLeft
> to list view
> --chooseWindowRight
> tell the front Finder window
> open chooseWindowRight
> set the properties to {bounds:{639, 23, 1279, 800}, current
> view:list view, toolbar visible:false, statusbar visible:true, pathbar
> visible:true, sidebar width:0}
> end tell
> tell list view options of the front Finder window
> set the properties to {calculates folder sizes:false, shows
> icon preview:true, icon size:small, text size:12, uses relative dates:true,
> sort column:kind column}
> tell column kind column
> set properties to ¬
> {sort direction:normal, width:72, visible:true}
> end tell
> tell column modification date column
> set properties to ¬
> {sort direction:normal, width:72, visible:true}
> end tell
> end tell
> set current view of the front Finder window to list view
> set the current view of the window of every folder of chooseWindowRight
> to list view
> end tell
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Kell
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