Just to add some background here, ChimeraX isn’t directly creating these dialogs itself, but is using the Qt windowing system’s QFileDialog class to show them.  For open dialogs, ChimeraX doesn’t need to add any custom controls to the dialog, so Qt uses a native window system dialog, but for save dialogs ChimeraX does want to add controls (e.g. amount of supersampling for image files), so Qt provides a “native like” dialog that it creates itself that allows the insertion of custom controls.  So some of the difference between what the open and save dialogs can do could be because of what ChimeraX is asking from Qt.

—Eric

On Oct 5, 2023, at 2:55 PM, Matthew Feasey (PGR) via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Hi Eric,

Thanks for your reply.

I'm now realising that this might be an OS limitation. At University, I use Linux (Mint, I believe), and on that system I'm fairly sure I can sort by date within File>Open, but not in File>Save.

But at home I use Windows 10, which seems to allow sorting by "Date modified" in both.

I will double check on Linux again tomorrow.

Best regards,
Matt
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Hi Matt,
Do you mean the reverse — add it to File→Open?  File→Save already supports sorting by the modification date, just click on the “Date Modified” column header.

--Eric

Eric Pettersen
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab


On Oct 5, 2023, at 12:35 PM, Eric Pettersen via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

The text of the lost message was:

Hi,

I was wondering if you would consider implementing sorting files by the date they were last modified to the File>Save function, much like it currently works in the File>Open function. This would save me quite some time looking through my sometimes inefficiently named sessions.

Best regards,
Matt

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