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Re: Change the Position of an disk icon on the desktop
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Re: Change the Position of an disk icon on the desktop


  • Subject: Re: Change the Position of an disk icon on the desktop
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:25:39 -0700

On Oct 3, 2003, at 12:25 PM, Michael Slomski wrote:

set thePos to position of disk 1

will get values which are not the position of items on my desktop but of the window of the desktop folder in users.

Changing positions will change the location of the items in that window, but not on the desktop itself (OS X 10.2.8). Perhaps it is fixed in Panther or broken with the .8 Update?

No, that is working as designed, as they say. There was an HI decision made some time ago that icon positions on the desktop and icon positions in the window of the desktop folder should be independent, and the scripting property reflects this: "position" refers only to the position in the window. There is currently no way to set the desktop position of an item, though there is a bug filed on that.


--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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