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Apple's Secret Desktop Sauce


  • Subject: Apple's Secret Desktop Sauce
  • From: dave miller <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:13:22 -0600

Just curious...

It seems as though every application from Apple that allows you to drag files/clippings/whatever to the desktop (Mail, Finder, iPhoto, iTunes) will place the dragged item(s) at the location that you dragged it to (which is as it should be). But it seems as though when dragging files/clippings/whatever from a third-party developer application, the dragged item(s) will be placed at seemingly random locations on the desktop. I'm running into the same problem, and I find it *very* frustrating to drag a file from Transmit/Yojimbo/etc. to the desktop only to have it placed way on the other side of my display.

Is there a way to specify the location of desktop items through Cocoa (whether the item already exists, or will be created through a drag & drop operation)? I know that you can access the desktop location of an icon through its "desktop position" AppleScript property, but because it's a read-only property that's only good for one-way access. Is there a way to specify this through Carbon or Cocoa? I've searched the developer docs and can't find anything regarding this snag. Thanks!

Dave
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