Showing Item Info (view options in Finder) with applescript

[SeanM]

Hi,

I need to make a lot of folders with pictures in them have the same view options. I want to make 128x128 icons, and show the item info. I did the icon part, but I can not find out how to Show Item Info (so it shows the picture dimensions in blue).

Here’s the script I have so far, any help would be appreciated:

tell application “Finder”
set curFolder to (Finder window 1) – front window, change to any other way of identifying your folder
tell curFolder
set current view to icon view
set arrangement of its icon view options to arranged by name
set icon size of its icon view options to 128
end tell
end tell

[jonn8]

The item info property of a Finder window in icon view is not scriptable (well, not directly, you could use GUI scripting but it’s a bear). However, if you set the preference in the Finder, you can turn on the item info for all windows on a system. For more Finder window management, take a look at my shareware application Finder Window Manager.

Jon

[SeanM]

That really sucks that its not scriptable. I know you could make that an option for all windows, but I just wanted to do this for certain windows (but there are a lot of them, so I thought I could do it via applescript). Oh well. Maybe in Tiger this will be possible.

I’ll take a look at that application, thanks for your help.