sort table view

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#1

Hello all,

I have a table view that I would like to be able to sort according to the dropped files’ creation date.
Is that possible at all ?

Actually, what i’m trying to do here is to batch rename files sequentially, but i would like my script to sort them according to their creation date first … the sequential renaming works perfectly, but it sorts them randomly I think (not even by name order)

Thank for any help !

#2

Hi,
This may or may not help:


tell application "Finder"
	set the_folder to (choose folder)--or whatever
	set these_items to every item of folder the_folder
	set these_items to (sort these_items by creation date)
end tell)

I’m using this code snippet in another script in order to circumvent Mac’s propensity to automatically sort in “drop order”.

Cheers,
Greg Ledger

#3

Hi Peon,

I did find this code example online before posting here, but I think I need to put that code in the on drop handler of my application.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to work (which is why I resorted to posting here in the first place).

See, the items dropped on my app are contained in a variable called theTableViewContents. That variable is what i use to fill in the table contents.
and since it is a list, I don’t think it can be sorted that easily.

Unless I find a way to make a table view that the user can sort according to his needs… I need to keep searching.
(now that I think of it, I’ll have a look at the applescript example in the developer folder, i might find what I want or at least something close !)

Thank you for trying anyway,
BS0D

#4

OK, so I managed to implement a table sort in my table view thanks to the developer examples – so when i click a column it reorders the dropped items just fine.

However, the items are not processed in the order chosen (ie corresponding to the column clicked).

I think I would need to sort the content of the variable containing the items too, right ?

Does anyone know what code I need to add so that the items are renamed according to the table sort?

#5

By that I mean sort the data source itself – because I’m assuming that the “table sort example” only sorts the items in the table view, no ?

Uhhhh, still struggling and confused ! :confused: