Table View Sorting Question

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#1

Hello,

I have seen this topic posted on here regarding this but it was never concluded so I thought I would ask if there was an answer.

I have a Table View whose content is sorted alphabetically in a column once the files are dropped on it. It sorts the file names. I am finding that even though it is sorted in the table column is isn’t sorted that way in the data source.

Ex.
Table View Data Once Sorted
Data Row 1 → File 1
Data Row 2 → File 2
Data Row 3 → File 3

Data Source
Data Row 1 → File 2
Data Row 2 → File 1
Data Row 3 → File 3

Where the problem is that I want to process the files in the order they are in the Table View, that’s why they are sorted but I can’t say set Variable to contents of first data cell of first data row because that isn’t necessarily how it is stored in the data source.

Does anyone know another way to access the data in the first data row of the sorted table column? I hope this makes sense.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks
Dallas

#2

I found an answer to my problem, seems to be working well.


tell dataSource
	set sortedDataRows to (sorted data rows) ---This was the answer. I didn't know I could do this
	repeat with afile in sortedDataRows
	set f to contents of data cell 1 of afile
	--Process file however
	end repeat
end tell

Thanks
Dallas