Hi,
i’m new to applescript and was wondering if there is any way to write a script that will allow me to right click in a folder and arrange files or folders?
Basicly i want to add the opton to the finder popup menu so i can choose to arrange by name, date type .etc
Is this posible using just applescript or will i have to use something else?
Thanks
Erik
Is simply clicking on the column headers (i.e. name, date, type, .etc) too much trouble?
CarbonQuark
Hi,
What you can do is use Big Cat to add a contextual menu item.
Read the document. Here’s an example of a script to change the arrangement to name arrangement.
on main(item_list)
tell application “Finder”
activate
set was_column to false
set insertion_location to (insertion location)
set container_window to container window of insertion_location
set cur_view to current view of container_window
if cur_view is icon view then
set arrangement of icon view options of container_window to arranged by name
else if cur_view is list view then
set sort column of list view options of container_window to name column
else
set was_coumn to true
end if
end tell
if was_colum then ¬
display dialog “Can’t arrange a window in column view.”
end main
Note that this doesn’t use the file_list because the file_list will contain the selected items. So say an item was selected in the window. You don’t want to set the arrangement for that item.
gl,