AndyV Posted March 7 Posted March 7 Maybe I'm obsessive, or maybe I have notice a problem that only matters to very very few people.... I do animation and I create the frames by making separate TIFF files which are then automatically placed into a "TIF sequence" in Davinci Resolve when I important any sequentially numbered group. So I can have upwards of 50...75 or more TIFF files as part of a sequence. Each of them needs a final editing/cleaning in Affinity. I usually do them in groups of six to keep it manageable. And when i get them into Affinity I have noticed that they get placed randomly even though I drag them in as an ordered group, such as xxx-01.tiff, xxx-02.tiff, xxx-03.tiff. i like to have them lined in order so that no matter whether i have them sorted in Finder by name or date, they will still line up sequentially and I can easily keep track of what files i have edited and which I haven't. So that's one "problem". The other is if i have them all sorted in Affinity in sequence, but then need to open any other file(s) they go all out of order again. Those who have read my other posts might be aware that I'm constantly comparing what I've been used to in Photoshop since i've moved to Affinity. And this is one of them. I have always been able to drag a group of sequential files into Photoshop and they line up according to their sequence, and never move. Not posting this expecting that there is any solution. But maybe in hopes that the powers that be consider changing how this works. Quote
Old Bruce Posted March 7 Posted March 7 17 minutes ago, AndyV said: Maybe I'm obsessive, or maybe I have notice a problem that only matters to very very few people.... Not at all obsessive, yours is a request from way back. A few years back I wrote a Python script to read in the names of a folder's image files and then the list was sorted and each name was opened in Affinity Photo. Other scriptiing languages should be able to do this too. Make a list with the names of the files. Sort the list alphabetically. I am not sure if all scripting languages need to do this, the version of Python on Mac did. Loop through the list sequentially opening each image. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
AndyV Posted March 7 Author Posted March 7 I took a course on Fortran at college fifty+ years ago and I realized then I would be a complete failure in the computer age....at least if I stuck at a career in computers. 😁 So no thanks to that idea. I'll hope and wait for a fix. Old Bruce 1 Quote
R C-R Posted March 7 Posted March 7 3 hours ago, Old Bruce said: Not at all obsessive, yours is a request from way back. IIRC, the problem with getting this to work is files open as soon as they are available, & in that order. So to avoid the app hanging up if one or more files are slow loading, or will not load at all, the reordering would have to be done after that finished. And of course, another complication is some want to be able to have them ordered by name, others by date (created or last modified), & so on. Plus, there is no guarantee that all of them would coming from the same folder, so it is less trivial to implement than it might appear. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
AndyV Posted March 8 Author Posted March 8 RCR - fair points. But then what about the fact that you can sort all of the files that you have open, but then when you open any more (or drag some in) they all go randomly out of order? I would think that fix would make everyone happy. Quote
R C-R Posted March 8 Posted March 8 34 minutes ago, AndyV said: but then when you open any more (or drag some in) they all go randomly out of order? I am not seeing that. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
R C-R Posted March 8 Posted March 8 20 hours ago, AndyV said: honest it does! I believe you, but maybe I do not understand what you mean. Are you saying for instance that if you have arranged 3 document tabs in a particular order & then open one or more others, the ones you previously arranged change to a new tab order? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
AndyV Posted March 9 Author Posted March 9 Yes exactly. And not only that. But let's say you're dragging the tabs to put them in order. And it is an easy thing to be clumsy with the dragging so that if you let go it makes a new window instead of a tab. If you do THAT, it also rearranges everything you've arranged up to that point. Quote
R C-R Posted March 9 Posted March 9 33 minutes ago, AndyV said: Yes exactly. Well, all I can tell you about that behavior is it not happening on my Mac. I don't know why it is different for you. Sorry. 34 minutes ago, AndyV said: But let's say you're dragging the tabs to put them in order. And it is an easy thing to be clumsy with the dragging so that if you let go it makes a new window instead of a tab. As long as I drag tabs left or right & not out of the line of tabs, no new window appears. Again I do not know why it behaves differently for you. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
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