Re: Packages vs. Finder (perceived stability problem)
Re: Packages vs. Finder (perceived stability problem)
- Subject: Re: Packages vs. Finder (perceived stability problem)
- From: Marco Biasini <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 13:34:23 +0200
How do you save your documents? I came across the same problem when I
set the atomically option to YES. When you don't use atomic save, the
icon will stay at the
same place. This works for files at least. I hope this helped in some
way
Cheers
On 09.04.2005, at 13:20, m wrote:
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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