Re: Can I programatically move an AXFinderItem (actually a AXFinderITem on the Desktop)?
Re: Can I programatically move an AXFinderItem (actually a AXFinderITem on the Desktop)?
- Subject: Re: Can I programatically move an AXFinderItem (actually a AXFinderITem on the Desktop)?
- From: John Louch <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:55:26 -0700
>From a finder engineer:
"You should be able to set the AXPosition attribute of items on the
desktop and in not-arranged icon views. You cannot get or set the
desktop position via AppleScript yet."
> Hi All,
> What I am trying to do, since I can not do this with AppleScript is
> find a way to get the position's of the Desktop Icons (AXFinderItems)
> and move them to a different position, or maybe to a different folder.
> Through Applescript when you get the Icon position it gives you the
> position in the Desktop Folder window, not the position on the Desktop
> itself. So I was hoping that with the Accessibility API's I could get
> the correct Icon position. Now I can move these icons (files) to a
> different folder, but when I want to move them back I don't know how to
> put them in the same position that they where in originally. I have
> found info on doing UI scripting but I can't seem to figure out through
> the docs if this is possible with UI Scripting. If this has been asked
> before please accept my apology, I have searched through the archives
> but can not find anything on this.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Scott Mitchell
> Macintosh Software Engineer
> Excelsior Software
> http://www.excelsiorsoftware.com
>
>
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