Re: How to move icons on desktop
Re: How to move icons on desktop
- Subject: Re: How to move icons on desktop
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 17:41:40 +0100
At 5:25 +0100 30/12/00, Chris Nebel wrote:
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Stephen Lanza wrote:
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> I had a script that moved a disk icon to a specific position on the
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> desktop which stopped working in MacOS 9. I recorded a script to see
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> what was going on and, when it is run, it fails.
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> The script code is:
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> tell application "Finder"
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> activate
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> get window {1230, 493}
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> select disk "RAM Disk"
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> set position of selection to {1219, 91}
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> end tell
[...]
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Well, the "get window" statement is completely bogus, so the Finder is
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correct in giving you an error there.
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I understand that Stephen got the "get window" line from recording the
Finder. If this is the case, it's a bug, either of the Finder, or of
AppleScript, or of the recording app, or can there be any conflict involved
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Can you confirm you got the bogus line from recording, Stephen ?
Emmanuel