DirSheet: Sort by name by default

[cool-RR]

This should be easy but I'm drawing a blank. I want all DirSheets to open sorted by file name by default. How do I do this?

[midichef]

One quick way is to add to your .visidatarc:
DirSheet._ordering = [('filename', False)] # the boolean reflects the order of the sort; False = ascending, True = desscending
But this relies on internal implementation details of the column sorting, not an outward-facing API, so it's not a clean long-term solution.

[cool-RR]

That is indeed quite disappointing. Works for me though, thank you.

[midichef]

Here is a better long-term solution, which does not depend on details of the current implementation. Use afterLoad and queueCommand in your .visidatarc:

@DirSheet.after
def afterLoad(sheet):
    vd.queueCommand('go-right', sheet=sheet)
    vd.queueCommand('sort-asc', sheet=sheet)

You should be able to use the same pattern for running startup commands on other sheets too, like GraphSheet, etc.

(EDIT: use queueCommand instead of execCommand)

[cool-RR]

I've had a bad experience with .after so I'll pass. Thanks anyway.

[midichef]

Ah thanks, I hadn't seen that thread. In it saulpw stated that queueCommand is better than execCommand for general purposes, so I just edited my .visidatarc example snippet to reflect that.