Class: FileSorter

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • instance creation
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • action

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--FileSorter

Package:

stx:libbasic2

Category:

Interface-Tools-File

Version:

rev: 1.12 date: 2021/11/27 02:05:54

user: cg

file: FileSorter.st directory: libbasic2

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic2

Description:

sort files by selector
care for directoriesBeforeFiles sortCaseless sortReverse


[instance variables:]
directoriesBeforeFiles: if true all directories and files will be sorted 
                        independently by the selector and the directories 
                        are before files 
sortCaseless:           if true and the selector is #baseName ignore upper
                        and lowercase in sort
sortReverse:            if true starts with highest value of the sort

[class variables:]

copyright
COPYRIGHT (c) 2004 by eXept Software AG
             All Rights Reserved

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hereby transferred.

Class protocol:

 directoriesBeforeFiles: arg1 selector: arg2 sortCaseless: arg3 sortReverse: arg4

Instance protocol:

 directoriesBeforeFiles

 directoriesBeforeFiles: something

 directoriesBeforeFiles: directoriesBeforeFilesArg selector: selectorArg sortCaseless: sortCaselessArg sortReverse: sortReverseArg

set instance variables (automatically generated)

 selector

 selector: something

 sortCaseless

aspect for sort caseless

 sortCaseless: something

 sortReverse

 sortReverse: something

 sortItemList: aList

for now, always do a natural sort where numerical components are compared as numbers