Sort order in Browser, Wildfire2

Hello all,

since we are on Wilfire 2 (Windows XP) the files/directories in the
"File open" window and in the browser are sorted upper case first then
lower case, i.e. first A-Z and then a-z. Does anyone else have this
behaviour? We find this very annoying...

Regards,
Peter Trump

 

hello !

Don't files with .name come first ?

I would find any other way very annoying. That's how real operating
systems do it. Can't please everyone

 

hello hamei,

if we were on UNIX you would be right.

If you are used to UNIX, well ok. But our users work on Windows since
Pro/E 20 and up to 2001 the sort order has been "Windows style". So why
did PTC decide to go "UNIX style"? BTW, under Windows this sort order is
ridiculous anyway, just try to create a file named "part1.prt" and
"Part1.prt" in the same directory ;-) And even better, you can have a
file named "part1.prt.1" and the next version "PART1.prt.2" without any
problems, so this isn't consistent at all. And last: In this case you
could please everyone, just have a switch in config.pro e.g. named
"SORT_STYLE" which could be UNIX or WINDOWS.

Have a nice day!
Peter

 

I guess they figured they had to do something to appease us Unixxers
for going to that terrible ugly Windows-style interface. So we got
sorting order while you got the fuzzy warm icons and built-in web
browser glorp

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. Let us never
accuse the gods and goddesses making decisions at ptc of
having small minds. Small elsewhere perhaps, but never
small minds !

That would be too sensible ... what I'd LOVE would be a switch
"Wildfire interface -> 2001 interface" in config.pro ... damn,
that'd be nice. Then everyone could be happy !

Working on it ... in fact, tomorrow is saturday so most likely
will, thanks !