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We are getting CREO 2 this fall and I'm curious to know before we get it ifPTC hasgotten past the need to list folder/file names in an upper case first then lower case issue? I am referring to the "Open" dialogbox and the in app browser and anywhere else they use this style.
I've been working with Pro/E for 21 years and still have not gotten use to this style of listings.
Is there a option in the config that I've been missing all these years?
Well that's just fine...
Thanks Ter but now I have to ask "WHY?".
Does anyone know the reasoning behind listing upper case first then lower case?
It's legacy behavior from the days of UNIX, where characters are in ASCII order.
It's still inexcusable.
Pro/E, Wildfire, Creo has been running under Windows for well over 15 years.
Gerry Champoux
Williams International
Walled Lake, MI
In Reply to Ronald Huber:
Well that's just fine...
Thanks Ter but now I have to ask "WHY?".
Does anyone know the reasoning behind listing upper case first then lower case?
I agree with Ron Thellen.
If it is purely because of ASCII then there would have to be something in the codingof Windows to counteract this and set to ignore(?) letter case.
Yes? No?
In Reply to Ron Thellen:
I'm not buying it (the ASCII logic)!
I have always found MS office apps to be completely inconsistent when sorting lists. Why should PTC be any different? What would they be consistent with, there is no "standard" behavior that I am aware of.
In Reply to Jonathan Hodgson:
Windows now has some quite clever (or annoying, depending) sorting algorithms - for example, in Win 7 it now tries to recognise numbers and order them appropriately rather than by pure ASCII sequence.
Thus, it will now list
2
6
10
33
instead of
10
2
33
6
I think the Pro/E difference has to do with whether PTC write their own File->Open dialogue box, or call a built-in Windows one.
Jonathan