Re: Problem getting position of desktop items
Re: Problem getting position of desktop items
- Subject: Re: Problem getting position of desktop items
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:03:15 -0400
On Jul 22, 2004, at 3:11 PM, Graff wrote:
On Jul 22, 2004, at 8:21 AM, Paul Skinner wrote:
On Jul 20, 2004, at 8:51 PM, Bill Briggs wrote:
At 8:07 PM -0400 20/07/2004, Graff wrote:
So far I believe there is no known method for positioning items on
the Desktop via AppleScript under Mac OS X.
Yes, this pathetically simple task in OS 9 is the new Holy Grail of
OS X scripting.
...
- web
This may be well-known and simply disliked, but you can hack around
this deficiency. Sort of.
tell application "Finder"
activate
...
end tell
So you are basically making a large window that shows all of the items
on the Desktop and then you arranging those items in that window?
Yeah, you can easily arrange stuff in a window but it's just not as
good as having a true Desktop. Now if you could fix that window so
that it always stayed in back of everything and couldn't be closed,
resized or moved then it might serve as a good replacement.
- Ken
Hey, that sounds like Apple's job, not mine : )
Actually, after posting, I had a thought that it would be good to do
this with multiple windows, allowing one to have several customizable
desktops. Perhaps dedicating one to your favorite app or a specific
task. Auto switching the content by opening the appropriate 'desktop'
when the app is active.
Paul
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