Thanks Seth. I'll look into AppleScript. Can't you write to the .DS_Store file with root privilege?
On Dec 7, 2010, at 1:10 AM, Seth Willits wrote: > 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. >> >> 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. > > > -- > Seth Willits > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/3tothe4th%40comcast.net > > This email sent to 3tothe...@comcast.net Charlie Dickman 3tothe...@comcast.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
