Packages vs. Finder (perceived stability problem)
Packages vs. Finder (perceived stability problem)
- Subject: Packages vs. Finder (perceived stability problem)
- From: m <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 04:20:31 -0700
I have an application whose documents are "packages" (or wrappers if
you prefer).
Annoyingly (very), when the document is saved, its position in the
Finder (the icon coordinates) change. This can make the darn document
really hard to find next time around, especially when my users place
their files on the desktop. Even worse, many of my users have those
really nice Cinema displays. Given that my users are human (ie they are
messy; lots of icons on really big desktops), the fact that they can't
count on their memory to help out ("It was right there! Where did it
go?") makes this a nasty usability problem.
I tried using Carbon's Finder Interface routines to get the icon
locations in the hopes of restoring them after a save, but they seem to
always return {0,0} (is this documented anywhere?). Using AppleScript
gets me the location of a document's icon in a window, but not on the
desktop.
Note that this doesn't seem to be a problem if the document is simply a
file.
Any strategies for dealing with this would be very appreciated.
Cheers,
_murat
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