Re: Selecting and positioning desktop icons
Re: Selecting and positioning desktop icons
- Subject: Re: Selecting and positioning desktop icons
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 17:45:28 +0100
At 6:33 am -0700 5/8/03, B2 Fass-Holmes wrote:
tell application "Finder"
activate
set theItem to folder "untitled folder"
set position of theItem to {765, 603}
end tell
I then saved this script, rebooted into Jaguar.6, opened the script
in Script Editor 2 beta, compiled the script, and ran it. Script
Editor 2 beta returned the following error.
Finder got an error: can't set position of selection.
I am confused by these outcomes. Can someone please explain to me
what's going on?
My goal in all this is to create a script that will align my desktop
icons horizontally.
If you do this and then drag the item to right end of the dock
tell app "Finder"
activate
reveal (path to "desk")
end
you will have a desktop that you can arrange. You can hide the title
bar etc. add a background exactly like the "desktop" by typing
command-j, set the size of the window to what you want and script the
positions of the icons.
When you want to see it, just click the desktop item in the dock.
JD
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