Re: Question about disk images, icons, etc. and Panther...
Re: Question about disk images, icons, etc. and Panther...
- Subject: Re: Question about disk images, icons, etc. and Panther...
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:18:24 +0100
On lundi, février 27, 2006, at 06:31 PM, Luke Bellandi wrote:
Hi Chas,
You should actually do these things using commands in the Finder. In
the Finder, select the window you want to customize, then press
command-J. This brings up the View Options panel for that Finder
window. You can change the background image and control text and icon
size. That should modify the .DS_Store file & save the image as a
hidden file for you.
This will not hide the image. You have to hide the image either using
the '.' prefix or using the Finder Info hidden flag which can be set
with some versions of SetFile (available with the dev tools) [or you
can use this tool source
http://homepage.mac.com/jrc/contrib/tools/SetInvisible.c].
Some additional points to take into account when using the View options
and Finder to set the layout:
Regarding background image:
o If you need to support Mac OS X 10.1, you will have to set the image
in Mac OS X 10.1. If you set it on Mac OS X 10.2 or later, when you
mount the disk image in 10.1, the background image is not displayed.
o If you change the title of the disk image at one point, depending on
the OS release, you may lose the background image.
Regarding text, icon and spacing:
o If you need to support Mac OS X 10.1, you will have to bear the fact
that the spacing (and sometimes icons size) is/are neither going to be
the same for that OS compared to more recent releases.
Regarding spaces:
o You have to add extra space at the bottom of the window if you're
setting the disk image on Mac OS X 10.2. This is because on 10.3, this
extra space is swallowed by the Finder when no scrollbars are to be
displayed.
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