Re: OS X Desktop
Re: OS X Desktop
- Subject: Re: OS X Desktop
- From: Seth Willits <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:10:22 -0800
On Dec 6, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Charlie Dickman wrote:
> In the days of System 9 there was a thing known as the desktop database and a number of applications/utilities that "remembered" the location of things on the desktop and would restore a saved configuration on command.
Heh. I made one. Clean Desk was the first program I ever sold. I made like $1200 off of that thing. Pretty nice chunk of change when you're 14. :-)
> For some time now I have been trying to find a similar OS X implementation that actually works. All of the ones I have tried mess up when trying to restore a saved desktop state; some put icons on top of other icons and some place the icons off the screen.
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> I've tried searching the web for a description of where OS X keeps desktop icon placement information, how to read it and how to save it with no luck.
It really hasn't changed. On OS 9 you had to get the position via AppleScript. It's the same now unless you dig into the private file format of .DS_Store (which I spent a loooong time doing for DMG Canvas), but then you can only read the file, not write to it, so you still need to use AppleScript to get/set the file position reliably, unless you're going to force the user to quit Finder, rewrite the private file, and relaunch Finder.
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Seth Willits
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