Hotkey to sort images by Rating/Descending

[reverberation]

Hi guys,

I just encountered a very annoying issue. By default, when we right click and Sort, I have to add "Rating" as the criteria for sorting, before I can proceed to sort by descending order for the folder. This applies to every new folder that I have to sort.

How can I program in AHK such that it auto-sorts by Rating (or Date Taken), descending order whenever there's a folder with predominantly (>80%) images (RAW, .ARW, .JPG, .PNG)?

[reverberation]

can anyone help please?

[reverberation]

hello???

[ManualColdLock]

what program are you using?
Can you be more specific about pretty much everything?

[boiler]

He's referring to the standard Windows File Explorer. Knowing that, his question is complete as stated.

[jeeswg]

method 1 (e.g. Windows 7) change folder settings, hotkey to sort each time:
- set which columns appear in a folder
'alt, View, Customize this folder...', to get the folder's type,
(i.e. General Items/Documents/Pictures/Music/Videos)
Add in the columns you want manually.
'alt, Tools, Folder options..., View tab, Apply to Folders'
Now all folders of the same type will have the additional column(s).
- invoke sort by column every time you need it

Code: Select all

q:: ;sort files by column
ControlGet, hCtl, Hwnd,, DirectUIHWND3, A
oAcc := Acc_Get("Object", "4.1", 0, "ahk_id " hCtl)
for _, oChild in Acc_Children(oAcc)
	if (oChild.accName(0) = "Name")
	{
		oChild.accDoDefaultAction(0)
			break
	}
return

method 2 create a custom folder window GUI (easier than it sounds):
- create a listview in a GUI, list the files
(for completeness, find a script to invoke a file's right-click context menu)
ListView (GUI)
https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Li ... m#Examples
- get the special properties of a file (e.g. see JEE_FileGetAttrib)
jeeswg's script snippets - AutoHotkey Community
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic ... 39#p130039

There was a lot to check over, which is why it took me a while.
Hope that helps.

[ManualColdLock]

This is very interesting, my context menu does not require it at all. I Just get sort by and can choose all the normal sorting options. so either I'm not understanding the situation or I've already fixed the problem?

[4GForce]

This is very interesting, my context menu does not require it at all. I Just get sort by and can choose all the normal sorting options. so either I'm not understanding the situation or I've already fixed the problem?

Try adding an extra column within Sort by > More > ...
Then open a new explorer and see if that column is there ?

If you don't save the settings new instances of explorer won't display it.
F10 > Tools > Folder options... > View > Apply to Folders

Edit : Win7 as far as Im concerned

[ManualColdLock]

Try adding an extra column within Sort by > More > ...
Then open a new explorer and see if that column is there ?

If you don't save the settings new instances of explorer won't display it.
F10 > Tools > Folder options... > View > Apply to Folders

I did this sucessfully, with no problems.
Win 7 64-bit.

I have several windows features turned off.
Notably "windows indexing" is turned off, that may be responsible for the difference?