Why does TmpgenDVD Author put files out of order?

[presto]

I use TmpgencDVD Author all the time. I often have a lot of small clips and I add them all at once. These are sometimes clips that are numbered and in sequence. I click Add File and navigate to the folder then hit control A to highlight all the files and then click Open or Save or whatever it is. If the files were named like this File 1, File 2, File 3, File 4, File 5 then they will appear in TmpgencDVD Author in this order: File 5, File 1, File 2, File 3, File 4,

I just noticed that the same thing happens in Tmpgenc DVD Source Creator. Why?

This is one of those never ending series of small annoyances that make DVD creating take twice as long and hundreds of clicks longer than it should take,

[babiulep]

Try this instead of ctrl-A:
Select the last file (i.e. File 5)
Hold 'Shift'
Select the first file (i.e. File 1)

Hope this helps....

[TBoneit]

From what I;ve seen it is a windows thing in WinXP..

IOWs if I select as in your example file 1 will always be added last. This is in any thing where I'm selecting files not just TMPGEnc.

My workaround is select file2 to 5 then hold down the control key and click file 1. The last file selected is always added first.

Good Luck

[wwjd]

I agree it is an thing to remember and to do. Once you have loaded the files in you can drag and drop then in any order you like.

[presto]

Any idea why such a counter intuitive thing would happen?

It's good to know that others have noticed this. Sometimes little annoyances are hard to explain and you feel like maybe the program is right and your doing something wrong.

[TBoneit]

You'd have to ask Bill Gates, this behavior has been in windows for a while. However it is a Windows thing and thus any application that uses windows services will exhibit this problem. I'm not a programmer but maybe it could be programmed around? OTOH since most (I'm guessing here) DVD Author users will be adding one file per title it isn't a priority.

[gadgetguy]

The behavior exists in the pre-packaged menu services in the Windows programming software so to compensate the program will have to re-sort the filenames after the menu services operation is complete, but if the user has selected a specific order (using the CTRL key to select one at a time, in reverse order) there is no way for the program to know this so the resulting re-sort would frustrate the user. Much as your experiencing now.