Re: Logic used in ordering of dropped folderitems?

[Charles Yeomans <charles at declareSub dot com>]

On Oct 31, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Terry Ford wrote:

>
> On Oct 31, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Charles Yeomans wrote:
>
>> Unless you choose to sort items by date.
>
> But isn't that an option you have to select once the dialog is open?
> How they are initially displayed appears to be alphabetically by name.
>
> Somehow, I don't think that it's as random as Joe says as it appeared
> to the OP that they opened in the same order each time.
>
> Just as I don't think that adding files to folders rearranges their
> order, just their appearance in the finder itself. Maybe it has more
> to do with the order they were created on the drive? Just guessing
> though.

Actually, you can set the sort order for a dialog in code in  
Navigation Services.

Joe's point is not that the order is random -- his point is that you  
should not guess.  All that you can depend on is that you get the  
list of dropped items.

Charles Yeomans
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