re: [MacPerl] ordering of files in Drag-n-drop from Finder

[schabel@leland.stanford.edu (Matthias Schabel)]

>
>        I wasnt' too sure about this answer, so I figured I'd pipe up
>about it.
>I found that the order is dictated by the selection in the View menu of
>the finder, just as Paul said. But if you select View by Icon or View by
>Small Icon then the order you select the files you drop is the order they
>appear in @ARGV. I've written one or two scripts that do depend on the
>order of the arguments, and that is how I imposed order over those
>arguments. I think that is what Paul said, but I just wasn't sure. Has
>anyone found otherwise?
>

Yeah, this is what I was remembering, I just mistakenly thought that it
would be independent of the view; next question: is there any way to coerce
the Finder into coughing up the info in selection order even if I am in a
view by name?

M

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