How to view RAW and JPG as stacked automatically

Bentofty,

Just a quick curious question. Lumigraphics has provided an answer and a possible solution, and hopefully, for you, his solution gives you exactly what you want.

But I am curious, why do you want or need both? If you need to make any corrections, you have to make it twice: once for the raw and once for the JPG. Isn't it easier to make it for the raw, and if you need a jpg out of the raw, it's very easy to generate the jpgs from the raws.

So, what/why do you need and want both?

This is quite disappointing. I'm just heading back to Photo Mechanic where this has been a basic feature for over a decade. Please drop me a line when Bridge catches up. 

I threw together a basic script to get you started. This works in MINIMAL testing but may have bugs! Posting as-is.

Save this script as a PLAIN TEXT file with a .jsx extension. Open Bridge Preferences->Startup Scripts and click the Reveal button. Drag the .jsx file into the folder and relaunch Bridge. The script will be in your Tools menu.

To use, navigate for a folder with RAW + JPEG files and select the script in Tools.

#target bridge
if(BridgeTalk.appName == 'bridge'){
var StackCmd = MenuElement.create('command', 'Stack RAW + JPEG', 'at the end of Tools');
}

StackCmd.onSelect = function(){
try{
var thumbs = app.document.thumbnail.children;
var baseName = '';
var baseLen = 0;
for(var i = 0; i < thumbs.length; i++){
if(thumbs[i].core.itemContent.canDoCameraRaw){
baseName = thumbs[i].name.split('.');
baseLen = baseName.length - 1;
if(baseName[baseLen] != 'jpg'){
baseName.length--;
baseName = baseName.join('.');
for(var j = 0; j < thumbs.length; j++){
if(thumbs[j].name == baseName + '.jpg'){
app.document.select(thumbs[i]);
app.document.select(thumbs[j]);
app.document.chooseMenuItem('StackGroup');
app.document.deselectAll();
}
}
}
}
}
}
catch(e){
alert(e + ' ' + e.line);
}
}

Bridge does not have this feature. It could be scripted if you wanted to write a script to do so.