Mike - I'm happy to report that this is totally resolved. I was using
something else as the text of the Desktop.ini file. When I switched to
simply:
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconResource=genericapp.ico
with no path whatsoever, everything began to work flawlessly.
Thanks for going the extra mile with me on this one. Tricky thing,
wasn't it?
Many thanks!!!!
On 4/17/2015 9:35 AM, Mike Bonner wrote:
Time for me to run away, but if things stay quirky, I'll see if I can
borrow a win8 system and poke around this eve when I get back.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote:
Strange. Wish I had win8 to try. If I set things using the property
inspector, it does adjust that file, but if I only do it with my script
(and set the IconResource) it stays the same. Most of the stuff you list
in the file is for inside except the logo.
foldertype just adjust settings for efficient indexing.
All I have in my desktop.ini (again windows 7) is this:
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconResource=genericapp.ico
with the ico file inside the folder, so no path needed after all. (if its
elsewhere, of course path it!)
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Ray <r...@linkit.com> wrote:
Another interesting point: after I create the Desktop.ini file from
within Livecode it's text is this:
[ViewState]
Mode=
Vid=
FolderType=Pictures
Logo=C:\Users\RayAc\Desktop\M\PubblyIcon.ico
and the file's size is 91 bytes.
After I manually set the desktop folder picture from the Properties tab,
to make sure it sticks, neither the text nor the attributes change at all,
but the size somehow grows to 93 bytes. Something else is happening to the
Desktop.ini file when changing the folder's picture manually but I don't
know what it is.
On 4/17/2015 9:17 AM, Mike Bonner wrote:
I'm not positive, but I THINK when you put files into the folder, it
makes
adjustments so that a) it still kinda shows your icon, while b) its
trying
to show previews of whats in the folder. I'm not sure this is what
you're
seeing, but it sounds right. I think there was a way around this
behavior,
(assuming my guess is right), but I'll have to try to remember what I
saw.
(probably another setting in the desktop.ini)
Unfortunately, its not behaving the same for me. Maybe its a random
feature!
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Ray <r...@linkit.com> wrote:
I see. So there are three different states of this check box: empty,
checked and "squared". That's a new thing for me. I always thought
there
were just two states of both check boxes and radio buttons, but I think
I
can handle that. Thanks for laying it out.
On another note, I've discovered that while the desktop icon I assign
to a
folder is there when I first create the folder and set it all up, it
shrinks the instant I write or copy a file into the folder, either
through
Livecode or manually on the desktop. Do you know why this might be
happening?
I only see the icon I assign when viewing by medium and large icons.
Could this have something to do with it?
On 4/17/2015 8:52 AM, Mike Bonner wrote:
If you notice, when you set the read only aspect of the folder using
the
shell, then look at the properties of the folder, the box isn't
checked.
Its greyed out. This is because you set the folder itself. When you
use
the checkbox in the proprieties inspector for the folder, you're
actually
setting the rules for the contents of the folder, not the folder
itself.
I suspect, if you create a folder, then check that box, then check its
attributes from the shell (attrib foldername) that the folder itself
won't
show R as one of its attribs. The checkbox isn't doing the same thing
as
the shell call.
Freaks me out a bit actually!
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