Re: Automatic file numbering ideas...
Re: Automatic file numbering ideas...
- Subject: Re: Automatic file numbering ideas...
- From: douglas welton <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:51:11 -0500
Jean-Nicolas.
Have you considered the notion of keeping your "counting data" in the
user defaults? This would give you quick persistence, without having
to calculate a value using the contents of a directory. Each time
you create a new file, increment the counting data and re-store the
new value in the user defaults. You could do a rollover check once
your count gets to some arbitrary value (say 100).
Note: This assumes that you want your count to be universal/system-
wide. If you want it to be directory specific, you might implement
the same scheme with tuples of directory paths and count values.
Also, I assume that you always want to count up... meaning that if
you have files picture 1, picture 2, and picture 4 in a directory,
then the next file is "picture 5", not "picture 3"
regards,
douglas
On Nov 23, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Jean-Nicolas Jolivet wrote:
I would love to implement something like the default screenshot
utility for OS X does when it names its pictures.. (i.e. Picture 1,
Picture 2, Picture 3.. etc.)
I was wondering if there's already something in place to do that? If
not, I don't mind implementing it myself but I can't really think of
a simple way to do it? Counting the files in a directory is not
really a reliable way to do it (i.e. if you have Picture 2 and
Picture 3 in a directory, your count is 2... try naming your new
picture Picture 3 and it overwrites the existing Picture 3 ...)
I'm fairly good with RegEx so it would be easy to parse filenames
for numbers I guess but it seems a little overkill for such a
trivial task... (especially since my app wouldn't use Regex for
anything else so, I dont want to add a regex framework just for
that)...
Any ideas would be appreciated?
Jean-Nicolas Jolivet
email@hidden
http://www.silverscripting.com
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