Feature request; sort by last time file was modified in save window
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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
On Oct 5, 2023, at 11:02 AM, m.c.feasey2--- via ChimeraX-users chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
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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:
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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
On Oct 5, 2023, at 11:02 AM, m.c.feasey2--- via ChimeraX-users chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
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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.
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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:
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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
On Oct 5, 2023, at 11:02 AM, m.c.feasey2--- via ChimeraX-users chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
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Just to add some background here, ChimeraX isn’t directly creating these dialogs itself, but is using the Qt windowing system’s QFileDialog https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qfiledialog.html#Option-enum 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 From: Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> Sent: 05 October 2023 22:31 To: ChimeraX Users Help <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> Cc: Matthew Feasey (PGR) <M.C.Feasey2@newcastle.ac.uk mailto:M.C.Feasey2@newcastle.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] Feature request; sort by last time file was modified in save window
⚠ External sender. Take care when opening links or attachments. Do not provide your login details. 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
On Oct 5, 2023, at 11:02 AM, m.c.feasey2--- via ChimeraX-users chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
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The ChimeraX 1.7.1 file save dialog on Mac sorts files by date if you click the Date Modified heading. This is a Qt window toolkit file save dialog (not an operating system native dialog) so I would expect it to work the same on all operating systems.
Tom
On Oct 5, 2023, at 3:53 AM, Matthew Feasey (PGR) via ChimeraX-users chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ ChimeraX-users mailing list -- chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu To unsubscribe send an email to chimerax-users-leave@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:chimerax-users-leave@cgl.ucsf.edu Archives: https://mail.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/archives/list/chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu/
Hi Tom,
I've just checked again & on my PC (ChimeraX 1.5) I still get the same - see image attached. Top half is the open dialog and the bottom half is the save dialog.
However on my colleague's "special" PC which has ChimeraX 1.7 the issue appears fixed - both windows look like the top one in the image and have the little arrow by "modified" to allow you to sort by date.
I will have to badger our system admin to update to 1.7 🙂
Cheers, Matt
________________________________ From: Tom Goddard goddard@sonic.net Sent: 09 February 2024 00:01 To: Matthew Feasey (PGR) M.C.Feasey2@newcastle.ac.uk Cc: chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] Feature request; sort by last time file was modified in save window
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The ChimeraX 1.7.1 file save dialog on Mac sorts files by date if you click the Date Modified heading. This is a Qt window toolkit file save dialog (not an operating system native dialog) so I would expect it to work the same on all operating systems.
Tom
On Oct 5, 2023, at 3:53 AM, Matthew Feasey (PGR) via ChimeraX-users chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ ChimeraX-users mailing list -- chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edumailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu To unsubscribe send an email to chimerax-users-leave@cgl.ucsf.edumailto:chimerax-users-leave@cgl.ucsf.edu Archives: https://mail.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/archives/list/chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu/
Hi Matt,
The Save dialog sorts by date for me in ChimeraX 1.5 on Windows 10. I just click on the Date Modified header. This dialog is part of the Qt window toolkit, not something the ChimeraX team wrote. I have no idea why it would not work for you.
Tom
On Feb 11, 2024, at 10:01 AM, Matthew Feasey (PGR) via ChimeraX-users chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
Hi Tom,
I've just checked again & on my PC (ChimeraX 1.5) I still get the same - see image attached. Top half is the open dialog and the bottom half is the save dialog.
However on my colleague's "special" PC which has ChimeraX 1.7 the issue appears fixed - both windows look like the top one in the image and have the little arrow by "modified" to allow you to sort by date.
I will have to badger our system admin to update to 1.7 🙂
Cheers, Matt
From: Tom Goddard <goddard@sonic.net mailto:goddard@sonic.net> Sent: 09 February 2024 00:01 To: Matthew Feasey (PGR) <M.C.Feasey2@newcastle.ac.uk mailto:M.C.Feasey2@newcastle.ac.uk> Cc: chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] Feature request; sort by last time file was modified in save window
⚠ External sender. Take care when opening links or attachments. Do not provide your login details. The ChimeraX 1.7.1 file save dialog on Mac sorts files by date if you click the Date Modified heading. This is a Qt window toolkit file save dialog (not an operating system native dialog) so I would expect it to work the same on all operating systems.
Tom
On Oct 5, 2023, at 3:53 AM, Matthew Feasey (PGR) via ChimeraX-users chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ ChimeraX-users mailing list -- chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu To unsubscribe send an email to chimerax-users-leave@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:chimerax-users-leave@cgl.ucsf.edu Archives: https://mail.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/archives/list/chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu/
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Eric Pettersen -
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Matthew Feasey (PGR)
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Tom Goddard