Recent Items:- Sort by date?

Question

Hi everyone,
has anybody figured out a way to sort recent items by date order rather than alphabetically. I'm totally frustrated at being unable to do this. i look forward to your replies

Answer 1

Hello
I already passed this script.
Using it, you will be able to select a «Recent Item» from a chronologically sorted list.
-- [SCRIPT Choisir1récent3]
Supprime les alias récents "orphelins"
Trie les éléments restants par ordre chronologique.
Permet alors de choisir celui que l'on veut ouvrir.
• Remove orphans recent items aliases
sort them by modification date
Allows us to choose one to open it.
Yvan KOENIG
23 mars 2004
modifié le 15 avril 2004
modifié le 26 avril 2004
property frenchAW : false (* true if french AppleWorks
• false assumes it is an english AppleWorks *)
if frenchAW is true then
set partialPath2recent to ¬
"Données utilisateur AppleWorks:Points de départ:Éléments récents"
else
set partialPath2recent to ¬
"AppleWorks User Data:Starting Points:Recent Items"
end if
set dossierDocuments to (path to "docs") as text
set dossierElementsRecents to dossierDocuments & partialPath2recent
tell application "Finder"
set listeLongue to ¬
(every item of folder dossierElementsRecents)
set nbRecents to count of listeLongue
if nbRecents > 0 then
set listeVivants to {}
repeat with i from 1 to nbRecents
set originalEnText to ""
set maybe to (item i of listeLongue)
try
set original to original item of maybe
(* essaie de trouver le fichier original
• try to find the "parent" file *)
set originalEnText to original as text
(* conversion impossible si l'original est à la poubelle
• can't convert if "parent" file is in the trash *)
end try
if (originalEnText) > "" then
set end of listeVivants to maybe
-- liste des chemins d'alias "vivants"
else
(* on n'a pas trouvé le document original
• don't find "parent" file *)
try
delete maybe
(* supprime l'alias orphelin (s'il n'est pas verrouillé)
• remove orphan alias (if not locked) *)
end try
end if
end repeat
set nbVivants to count of listeVivants
if nbVivants > 0 then
if ("10." is not in ("" & version)) then
set listeOk to (sort listPaths by modification date)
-- pas testé sous Mac OS 8/9
else
set listeDates to {}
repeat with i from 1 to nbVivants
set end of listeDates to ¬
modification date of (item i of listeVivants)
end repeat
set listeOk to my TriLineaire(listeDates, listeVivants)
end if
(* liste triée des chemins d'alias "vivants"
• sorted list of path to "living" aliases *)
set listeNoms to {}
repeat with i from 1 to nbVivants
set end of listeNoms to ¬
(name of (item i of listeOk)) as text
end repeat
(* liste triée des noms d'alias "vivants"
• sorted list of names of "living" aliases *)
(* Choisi un élément récent
• Choose a recent item *)
set monChoix to (choose from list listeNoms ¬
with prompt "Choisir un élément récent …") as text
if monChoix > "" then
set ii to 0
repeat with i from 1 to nbVivants
if monChoix is item i of listeNoms then
set ii to i
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
if ii > 0 then open (item ii of listeOk)
(* ouvre le fichier pointé par l'alias choisi
• Opens the file pointed to by the choosed alias *)
end if -- monchoix > 0
end if -- nbVivants > 0
end if -- nbRecents > 0
end tell -- to Finder
-- to be continued