Thomas Olbrich wrote:

> Apple's system does differentiate the file order according to the
> selected finders view: You can copy/paste a folders content from
> finder to TextEdit with different results, depending under which
> finders view you did the copy action: For instance list view and
> symbolic/icon view result in different text entries/order.

And this applies to dragging graphics into InDesign windows as well?
I'll look out for this possibility if/when the occasion arises, thanks.
In the case of my four test graphics, however, I placed them one after
the other individually.

It's a curious coincidence that you write about different Finder views
precisely when I'm trying to get my old Mac cmd-shift-ctrl n/d/k/l/s
name/date/kind/label/size shortcuts finally revived in OS X. This is
complicated, I realized yesterday, by the existence of column view
as well as list view. So today I made a series just for list view:

tell application "Finder"
set current view of window 1 to list view
set sort column of list view options of window 1 to name column
-- modification date column, kind column, label column, size column
if sort direction of column name column of list view options ¬
of window 1 is reversed then
set sort direction of column name column of list view options ¬
of window 1 to normal
else
set sort direction of column name column of list view options ¬
of window 1 to reversed
end if
end tell

and got these all assigned to the desired keycodes. I may or may not
get around to doing variants for column view, but one thing I do want
to do is reverse the sort direction only if the sort column is already
set to the one desired. That is, I want to move the if/else statement
to the beginning of the script and place it inside another if statement
testing for the current sort column. But I couldn't figure out how to
do that test.


Thanks,

Roy


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