Re: Apple's Secret Desktop Sauce
Re: Apple's Secret Desktop Sauce
- Subject: Re: Apple's Secret Desktop Sauce
- From: Dave Sopchak <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:16:13 -0700
Apple doesn't appear to have that secret sauce working for me in Mail
at all. When I drop an attachment to the desktop, puff, it goes where
it pleases, usually to the right side of the screen.
On Jun 15, 2006, at 2:13 PM, dave miller wrote:
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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