Custom Sort List

[avivariba]

The Sort By/List is quite bloated for me, with me only ever using 3 of the 28 options that show by default.

It would be really nice if...

1. options could be (un)checked and hidden, perhaps with the unchecked ones only showing in the Sort List under '...' (e.g. being able to uncheck and hide 'F-Stop');

2. a custom order could be given to the list (e.g. moving 'Name' to the top, 'Size' second, etc).

Kind of like Color Filters or List Management alike.

For some unknown reason, 'Extra 16' shows in between 'Extra 5' and 'Extra 6' for me in the Sort List under '...', the order being 'Extra .. 4, 5, 16, 6, 7 ..', which lead me to believe the above is already possible. I am fairly certain I looked everywhere, but I could find no such option.

[highend]

I don't think this will happen...

Use scripting to create what you want

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"By name" #321;
"By size" #323;
"By type" #324;

Command ids can be looked up via the Help - List All Commands... menu

[avivariba]

I don't think this will happen...

Use scripting to create what you want

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"By name" #321;
"By size" #323;
"By type" #324;

Command ids can be looked up via the Help - List All Commands... menu

I found that for a popupmenu button it's nice. Unfortunately it has no state checkmark by default, and the 'Sort By' in the context menu will still be a bit of a hell.

I suppose the 'Extra 16' being out of place really is just a small bug then.

[highend]

Unfortunately it has no state checkmark by default

Even that could be scripted, but not with that simple multiline version

[Norn]

Unfortunately it has no state checkmark by default

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get("#333")
get("Sort")

Add icon to popupmenu.

[highend]

E.g.:

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    $sortBy = gettoken(get("Sort"), 1, ",");
    $menu   = <<<>>>
By name|#321;||
By size|#323;||
By type|#324;||
    >>>;
    $default = regexmatches($menu, "^By " . $sortBy . "\|.+?(?=\r?\n|$)");
    if ($default) { $menu = replace($menu, $default, $default . 3); }
    $sel = popupmenu($menu, 6:=<crlf>, 7:="|");

[avivariba]

E.g.:

I was just about to get frustrated trying to script it myself, and then you dropped this surprise. Thank you!!

To make it look a little more similar to the original (for if that were to help anyone else), I dropped the By (and "^By " . ), and changed the replace with $default . 2.